Prof. Heidi R Fuller currently serves as the Head of School for Pharmacy and Bioengineering and research group leader within the Wolfson Centre for Inherited Neuromuscular Disease, based at Keele’s partner site, the RJAH Orthopaedic Hospital. She received her first degree in Biomolecular Science at the University of Wales, Bangor, and then she completed an industry-sponsored Ph.D. studentship at the University of Wales, North East Wales Institute. Following a period of postdoctoral research within the NHS focused mainly on neuromuscular disorders and proteomics technology, she joined Keele as an independent Research Fellow in 2013 and as a part-time Teaching Fellow in the School of Medicine in 2014. In 2016, she was appointed as a Lecturer in the School of Medicine, promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2019, and became Professor in 2024. From 2016 to 2021, Heidi was the Course Director for the Masters in Medical Sciences programs within Postgraduate Medicine, before taking up the role of Dean of Education for the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (2021–2024). Her research topics mainly include muscle-wasting diseases, muscular dystrophy, childhood forms of motor neuron disease and spinal muscular atrophy.