Emily Bowen
United Kingdom
2025-2027 ISN-KI Editorial Fellow
ISN-KI Editorial Fellows are early–career professionals and academics working in the field of nephrology, dialysis, and transplantation, who work and learn with the Kidney International® editorial team for two years.
Dr. Emily Bowen is a NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer in Nephrology at the University of Manchester, in Manchester, England. A clinician-scientist, she currently works in the Welcome Center for Cell-Matrix Research at the University of Manchester, a major international hub of expertise in matrix biology in the UK.
Dr. Bowen graduated from King’s College Medical School London, UK, in 2008 with a background in infectious diseases and immunobiology. Her PhD focused on the molecular pathways underpinning Shiga toxin hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) through the development of several complex mouse models and cell co-culture work. Since her PhD in 2020, she has worked with experts in complement cell biology in London and Bristol, UK, and Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
In 2018, she was awarded Young Investigator of the Year by the Renal Association. Her contribution to kidney research has also been recognized in the award of several international prizes including Best Scientific Abstract at UK Kidney Week in 2020, Best Oral presentation at the ESPN in 2022, and most recently Best oral presentation at the International Complement Meeting in 2023.
Dr. Bowen is interested in understanding cellular interactions in the kidney microenvironment in the development of glomerular disease and has a particular interest in glomerular cell glycocalyx and complement regulators in the kidney.
The ISN-KI Editorial Fellows will be recognized at the World Congress of Nephrology (WCN) in The ISN-KI/KIR Editorial Fellows Session: The Best of 2024/25 Articles, on Saturday, February 8, 2025, from 9:45-11:15 a.m.