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Prof Claire Stewart

Sport and Exercise Sciences

Faculty of Science

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Professor Claire Stewart (Professor of Stem Cell Biology) is an academic member of staff with teaching duties. Claire is Chair of the British Society for Research on Ageing (BSRA). She is a board member of the Mercia Stem Cell Alliance and the Northern Vascular Biology Forum. She is also a former public engagement board member of the Society for Endocrinology and a former ACMD working group member on Image and Performance Enhancing Drugs. Claire is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, has a Level 5 Certificate in Coaching and Mentoring and is undertaking her L7 award in Coaching Supervision. Claire is a senior managing editor for the Journal of Cellular & Molecular Exercise Physiology. She also participated as an academic partner in the Royal Society Pairing Scheme.
She has a fundamental research interest in the regulators of skeletal muscle adaptation, in health and disease, with injury and disuse, in elite sport and across the ages. She was one of the first, worldwide, to develop an adult human skeletal muscle stem cell model of muscle wasting with cancer and identified the concept of cellular memory in muscle derived stem cells. She was also one of the first to identify the important role that PI3Kinase plays in enabling insulin-like growth factor-induced survival of skeletal muscle cells. Her current motivation is to translate her mechanistic understanding of muscle adaptation to Sport and Exercise sciences.

Languages

German

Degrees

2019, Institute of Leadership and Management, United Kingdom, L5 Certificate in Coaching and Mentoring
1993, University of London, United Kingdom, PhD
1989, University of London, United Kingdom, Certificate in Immunology
1988, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom, BSc Honours in Developmental BIology

Academic appointments

Assistant Head of RISES, LJMU, LJMU, 2016 - present
Professor of Stem Cell Biology, LJMU, LJMU, 2011 - present
Professor of Cell and Molecular Biology, IRM/Sport and Exercise Sciences, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2006 - 2011
Reader, IRM, Sport and Exercise Sciences, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2004 - 2006
Lecturer, Surgery, University of Bristol, 1999 - 2004

Postgraduate training

Postdoctoral Fellow, United Kingdom, University of Bristol, 1996 - 1999
Post-doctoral Fellow, United States, Washington University Medical School, 1993 - 1996

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