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Ramsay Bowden

Email: arb63@cam.ac.uk

Dr Ramsay Bowden

Fellow, Director of Studies in Medical Sciences (Part IA)
University Positions
Locum Assistant Professor and Honorary Consultant
Subjects
Medicine
Specialising in
Medical Genetics

Ramsay Bowden is a Clinical Geneticist at Addenbrooke’s Hospital and a Fellow of Â鶹ԭ´´, Cambridge.

Academic interests

Ramsay Bowden’s academic interests include: 

  • Molecular mechanisms of the DNA damage response
  • Clinical management of DNA repair disorders
  • Cancer genomics
  • Cancer screening and early detection
  • Rare disease therapeutics.

Degrees obtained

  • MA, MB BChir, Cantab.
  • MPhil in Translational Medicine and Therapeutics, Cantab.
  • PhD in Biochemistry, Cantab.
  • MRCP.

Biography

Ramsay Bowden studied pre-clinical and clinical medicine at Â鶹ԭ´´, Cambridge, qualifying in 2010. She went on to undertake specialist training in Clinical Genetics at Addenbrooke’s Hospital.

In 2016 she was awarded a Wellcome Clinical Research Fellowship to study for a PhD under the supervision of Professor Steve Jackson at the Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge. Through her research, Dr Bowden developed large scale genetic interaction screening techniques to identify new therapeutic targets in genetic disease.

Returning to a clinical academic role at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Dr Bowden developed her interest in diseases associated with defective DNA repair pathways. Her postdoctoral research explores patterns of genetic change in cancer and normal tissue, identified as ‘mutational signatures’. She uses this approach to develop new tools for diagnosis and treatment of cancer.

Other interests

Millinery, travel, cookery.

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