Professor Andrew Dowsey
MEng(Lond.), PhD
Current positions
Chair in Population Health Data Science
Bristol Veterinary School
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Research interests
Andrew’s research group focuses on the acceleration of health sciences research and new clinical diagnostics through novel artificial intelligence and statistical data science methodology, as well as data collection and management platforms. His team works in highly multidisciplinary environments to both lead and support investigations across three strands of research: Profiling the protein and metabolite content of biological fluids and tissues using mass spectrometry proteomics and metabolomics for understanding disease mechanism, and to discover biomarkers for clinical diagnostics; Constructing secure research platforms and developing predictive models from population-level health and environmental data to develop interventions for One Health challenges such as anti-microbial resistance; Intensive longitudinal health, activity and behavioural monitoring at the level of individual animals and groups of animals for welfare and environmental sustainability.
Andrew has a joint position in Bristol Veterinary School and the Department of Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medicial School. He is AI lead for the John Oldacre Centre at Bristol Veterinary School, where he is also Population Health Theme Lead and Impact Director. He is Director for Enterprise & Innovation in the Faculty of Health Sciences, is an Associate Director of the HDR-UK South-West Better Care Partnership, and a Turing Fellow. Previously, he was Research Director for Bristol Veterinary School and founding Director of the John Oldacre Centre. He held an EPSRC Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Hamlyn Centre, Imperial College London, an MRC New Investigator Research Grant at the Centre for Advanced Discovery and Experimental Therapeutics, The University of Manchester, and was a Reader in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronics at the University of Liverpool.
Current Staff (Lead Supervisor)
- Ranjeet Bhamber (Research Fellow)
- Brian Sullivan (PDRA)
- Mike Tier (Data Manager)
Current PhD Students (Lead Supervisor)
- Tim Dong
- Lucy Vass
- Axel Montout
- Léo Gorman (Turing Doctoral programme)
- Ed Barker (EPSRC CDT in Digital Health)
- Asheesh Sharma (joint with Melvyn Smith, UWE; BBSRC SWBio CDT)
- Harry Tata (EPSRC COMPASS CDT; funded by AstraZeneca)
- Dan Milner (EPSRC COMPASS CDT; joint funded by ILRI)
Current PhD Students (Co-supervisor)
- Zoe Parr-Cortes (lead Nicola Rooney; BBSRC SWBio CDT)
- Abbie Williams (lead Laura Peachey; BBSRC SWBio CDT)
- Tom Zuffa (lead Tim Parkin)
- Elliot Stanton (lead Kristen Reyher; BBSRC SWBio CDT)
Graduated Postgraduate Students
- Jon Massey PhD (2021), "Barriers to population-level AMR research in UK livestock and opportunities for data science"
- Al Phillips PhD (2020), "Bayesian methods for protein quantification in mass spectrometry proteomics"
Alumni
- Gina Caplen (Senior PDRA)
- Jo Hockenhull (Senior PDRA)
- Louis MacGregor (Senior PDRA)
- Will Andrew (PDRA)
- Hanqing Liao (PDRA)
- Andris Jankevics (PDRA)
- Yan Zhang (PDRA)
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
AI to monitor changes in social behaviour for the early detection of disease in dairy cattle
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Veterinary SchoolDates
01/07/2023 to 30/06/2026
8055 (MRC CiC Ref MC_PC_19031 additional funding) Health Sciences Enterprise and Innovation Mentorship programme 2022
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Veterinary SchoolDates
01/09/2022 to 31/03/2023
HDR-UK South West Better Care Partnership
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Description
Better Care South-West Partnership is a collaboration of NHS commissioners, primary, secondary, community and mental health care providers, local authorities, and academia. They look to address real-world health problems using…Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/05/2020 to 31/03/2023
Building Open Data Standards for Livestock Veterinary Treatment Data
Principal Investigator
Role
Collaborator
Description
Extension of ICAR Animal Data Exchange standards to include key data regarding livestock veterinary treatments with particular focus on UK context.Managing organisational unit
Bristol Veterinary SchoolDates
01/08/2018
Closed 8055 Belgium: Taming the application of statistics in proteomics and metabolomics BB/R021430/1
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Veterinary SchoolDates
11/07/2018 to 31/12/2019
Thesis supervisions
Barriers to population level AMR research in UK livestock and opportunities for data science
Supervisors
Statistical modelling methodology for investigating risk factors of antimicrobial use and resistance
Supervisors
Prediction of poor health in small ruminants and companion animals with accelerometers and machine learning
Supervisors
Publications
Selected publications
01/06/2021Visual identification of individual Holstein-Friesian cattle via deep metric learning
Computers and Electronics in Agriculture
Widespread severe cerebral elevations of haptoglobin and haemopexin in sporadic Alzheimer's disease
Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications
Uncertainty aware protein-level quantification and differential expression analysis of proteomics data with seaMass
Statistical Analysis of Proteomic Data
Recent publications
21/04/2023Accurate and interpretable prediction of poor health in small ruminants with accelerometers and machine learning
Rational Antibiotic Escalation Applied to Specific Patient Groups
Five Inhibitory Receptors Display Distinct Vesicular Distributions in Murine T Cells
Cells
Prevalence and risk factors for common respiratory pathogens within a cohort of pet cats in the UK
Journal of Small Animal Practice
Five inhibitory receptors display distinct vesicular distributions in T cells
Five inhibitory receptors display distinct vesicular distributions in T cells