Biography

Education Professor Bowness obtained his Medical Degree from the University of Cambridge in 1986, and held junior doctor posts in London, including at the Hammersmith Hospital/Royal Postgraduate Medical School, until 1990. In 1993 he received a DPhil (PhD) in Immunology from Oxford University in 1993. Honours and Awards Currently holds the title of University Reader in Immunology and in 2011 was awarded the title of Professor of Experimental Rheumatology by the University of Oxford. He was awarded the British Society of Rheumatology Michael Mason Prize in 2000. Professor Bowness has published over 110 peer-reviewed articles in major scientific journals and has written many reviews and chapters in textbooks including the Oxford Textbook of Medicine. Research interests Immunology

Research Intrest

Immunology

List of Publications
"1. Robinson PC, Costello ME, Leo P, Bradbury LA, Hollis K, Cortes A, Lee S, Joo KB, Paul Bowness ERAP2 is associated with ankylosing spondylitis in HLA-B27-positive and HLA-B27-negative patients Ann Rheum Dis (2015) 74: 1627-1629 2. Edwards AM, Arrowsmith CH, Bountra C, Bunnage ME, Feldmann M, Knight JC, Patel DD, Prinos P, Taylor MD, Sundström M Preclinical target validation using patient-derived cells Nat Rev Drug Discov (2015) 14: 149-150 3. Cortes A, Pulit SL, Leo PJ, Pointon JJ, Robinson PC, Weisman MH, Ward M, Gensler LS, Zhou X, Paul B Major histocompatibility complex associations of ankylosing spondylitis are complex and involve further epistasis with ERAP1 Nat Commun (2015) Vol 6 4. Prieto-Alhambra D, Muñoz-Ortego J, De Vries F, Vosse D, Arden NK, Bowness P, Cooper C, Diez-Perez A, Vestergaard P Ankylosing spondylitis confers substantially increased risk of clinical spine fractures: a nationwide case-control study Osteoporos Int (2015) 26: 85-91 5. Lee S, Joo KB, Shim SC, Weisman M, Ward M, Zhou X, Bowness P. Identification of multiple risk variants for ankylosing spondylitis through high-density genotyping of immune-related loci. Nat Genet (2013) 45: 730-738.