Fiona M. Watt#
| Membership Number: | 2645 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2009 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://bit.ly/1KrwQnp http://www.wattlab.org/fiona-watt.html |
http://www.wattlab.org/fiona-watt.html
Present and Previous Positions
- 2012-present Director of the Centre for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine, King’s College London School of Medicine
- 2006-2012 Deputy Director, Cambridge CR-UK Institute (since September 2005); Herchel Smith Professor of Molecular Genetics, Cambridge University and Deputy Director, Wellcome Trust Centre for Stem Cell Research; Fellow of St John’s College
- 1987-2006 Head of Keratinocyte Laboratory, CR-UK London Research Institute (formerly Imperial Cancer Research Fund), Principal Scientist 1992
- 1981-1986 Head of Molecular Cell Biology Laboratory, Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, London
- 1979-1981 Postdoctoral Associate, M.I.T., Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
- 1976-1979 Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford - D.Phil.
Fields of Scholarship
- Epidermis
- Stem cells
- Cancer
Honours and Awards
- 2009 Distinguished lecturer, International Association for Dental Research
- 2009 Member of Academia Europaea
- 2008 President, International Society for Stem Cell Research
- 2008 Honorary Foreign Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2008 ASCB Women in Cell Biology Senior Award
- 2006 Almroth Wright Lecture, Imperial College London
- 2006 Ebling Award of the European Hair Research Society
- 2004 William Harvey Lecture, St Bartholomew’s hospital, London
- 2003 Fellow, Royal Society
- 2003 FEDERA award of the Dutch Federation of Medical Scientific Societies
- 2001 Tanioku Memorial Lectureship, prize of Japanese Society for Investigative Dermatology
- 2001 CE.R.I.E.S. (CEntre de Recherches et d’Investigations Epidermiques et Sensorielles) Research Award of Chanel
- 2000 Fellow, Academy of Medical Sciences
- 1999 William Montagna Award of the American Society for Investigative Dermatology
- 1999 Member, European Molecular Biology Organization
- 1999-2006 President, British Society for Cell Biology
- 1990 Biological Council Medal
