Robert Bowser
Professor
Neurology and Neurobiology
Barrow Neurological Institute
United States of America
Biography
Dr. Bowser is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University and obtained his PhD from Yale University. He performed fellowship training at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and was a faculty member at the University of Pittsburgh from 1994 to 2011, rising through the ranks to full professor. He joined the faculty at Barrow in 2011.Dr. Robert Bowser is an internationally-recognized leader in ALS research. He has contributed to pioneering efforts to discover and validate biomarkers for ALS. These biomarkers can be useful as diagnostic indicators of disease, predictors of disease progression, and also in determining the effectiveness of drugs in clinical trials. Dr. Bowser has extensive experience in the translation of basic science discoveries to the clinic to impact patient care.
Research Interest
Mechanisms of ALS, New targets for drug treatment, Improved therapies for ALS
Publications
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1.Smith R, Myers K, Ravits J, Bowser R. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: Is the spinal fluid pathway involved in seeding and spread?. Medical hypotheses. 2015 Nov 30;85(5):576-83.
2. Rutkove SB, Shefner JM, Bowser R, Benatar M. To travel or not to travel: The modern day struggle of the academic researcher. Annals of neurology. 2015 Nov 1;78(5):667-9.
3. Li Y, Collins M, Geiser R, Bakkar N, Riascos D, Bowser R. RBM45 homo-oligomerization mediates association with ALS-linked proteins and stress granules. Scientific reports. 2015 Sep 22;5:14262.
