Nicholas Casewell BSc, PhD

Dr. Casewell was a graduate of the University of Liverpool (BSc Tropical Disease Biology), during which time he also studied at the Alistair Reid Venom Research Unit at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. Casewell’s interest in snake venom research developed at this point, ultimately resulting in a PhD studentship at Bangor University where he studied the composition, evolution and immunology of saw-scaled viper venoms and their antivenoms. The result of Dr. Casewell’s PhD research saw him nominated as a finalist for the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution’s young researcher prize, the Walter M. Fitch Award, in 2011.

Subsequently, Casewell became Antivenom Manager for the UK manufacturing company MicroPharm Limited, in a commercial and academic collaboration with the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. In 2012, Casewell was awarded an Independent Research Fellowship from the Natural Environment Research Council, UK to investigate the evolution and composition of different fish venoms, returning to Bangor University to conduct the research.

Casewell was appointed as a Lecturer in 2014 and, subsequently, as a Senior Lecturer in 2016 in the Alistair Reid Venom Research Unit of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. In 2016 Dr. Casewell was awarded a Sir Henry Dale Research Fellowship by the Wellcome Trust and Royal Society to develop new antivenoms for treating snakebite. Casewell has published over 40 scientific papers and 6 book chapters on venoms and antivenoms, and he serves on the editorial board of the scientific journals Toxins and PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases.