Control and Regulation of Stem Cells with Fiona Watt Interviewed by Jan Witkowski

Fiona Watt obtained her undergraduate degree from Cambridge University and her DPhil from the University of Oxford.... » More

Fiona Watt obtained her undergraduate degree from Cambridge University and her DPhil from the University of Oxford. She was a postdoctoral fellow with Howard Green at MIT and it was there that she first studied mammalian epidermis. After running a lab in London for many years, she moved to Cambridge in 2007. She is deputy director of the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute and the Wellcome Trust Centre for Stem Cell Research.

Fiona Watt’s long standing research interest is in how the differentiated state of adult tissues is maintained. She studies this using mammalian epidermis as a model system. Current projects in her laboratory are concerned with self-renewal and lineage selection by human and mouse epidermal stem cells, the role of stem cells in epidermal tumour formation, and the assembly and function of the epidermal cornified envelope. « Hide