Professor Nikola Bowden is the Vanessa McGuigan Hunter Medical Research Institute Fellow in Ovarian Cancer Research and Chief Investigator of the NSW Regional Cancer Research Network, a Cancer Institute NSW Translational Cancer Research Capacity Building Grant. Professor Bowden’s research investigates DNA repair, immunotherapy and drug repurposing for melanoma and ovarian cancer.

She leads the MRFF-funded Australian Program for Drug Repurposing for Treatment Resistant Ovarian Cancer and several Investigator-initiated clinical trials for treatment-resistant cancers in collaboration with the Pharmaceutical Industry.

Professor Bowden has previously held Chair of the Australian Academy of Science Early and Mid-Career Researcher Forum, as well as funding from Cancer Australia, Cure Cancer Australia, Cancer Institute NSW Career Development Fellowship, and a NHMRC Training Fellowship.