Melissa Bowerman

Biography

Dr Bowerman (@BowermanNMD) is a Senior Lecturer in Neuromuscular & Skeletal Disorders at the School of Medicine and a group member of the Wolfson Centre for Inherited Neuromuscular Disease in Oswestry.

Dr Bowerman completed her Ph.D. (2006-2012) in Dr Rashmi Kothary's laboratory (Ottawa Hospital Research Institute (OHRI)/University of Ottawa, Canada) where she held a CIHR Frederick Banting and Charles Best doctoral award and received the OHRI Dr. Ronald G. Worton Researcher in Training Award. Dr Bowerman then joined Dr Cedric Raoul's laboratory at the Institut des Neurosciences de Montpellier in France as an EMBO Long-Term Fellow (2012-2014). From 2014-2016, Dr Bowerman was a postdoctoral research assistant at the University of Oxford in Professor Matthew Wood's group. In October 2015, Dr Bowerman was the recipient of a Junior Research Fellowship at Somerville College, University of Oxford (2015-2017). In January 2016, Dr Bowerman was awarded and SMA Trust Career Development Fellowship at the University of Oxford.

Research and scholarship

The central thematic of our research programme is to identify novel pathological pathways that contribute to the pathophysiology of rare diseases and to investigate novel therapeutic approaches using a combination of omics, bioinformatics and drug repurposing strategies.

More information on our research projects and funding can be found here.

Teaching

Dr Bowerman contributes to various elements of the:

1. MBChB degree, School of Medicine, Keele University, UK
2. LSC-20016 Module, School of Life Sciences, Keele University, UK
3. Physiology of Neuromusculoskeletal Tissue Module, School of Applied Health Professions, Keele University, UK
4. Physician Associate Studies M.Sc., Keele University, UK
5. Paramedic Science with Integrated Master’s M.Sci., Keele University, Keele
6. M.Sc. Neuroscience degree, University of Oxford, UK

Roles

• Neuroscience & Neurology Research Group Co-Lead (@KeeleNeuro)
• Medical Intercalated Degrees & ASPIRE Research Programme Co-Lead
• Contemporary Medicine Lecture Series Lead (@MedLectureKeele)