Fiona Watt

I'am EMBO Director (European Molecular Biology Organization), a group leader at EMBL Heidelberg and Professor at King’s College London.

My passion is understanding the stem cells of the human body and how they can be used to improve human health.

Publications

Hiratsuka, T., Bordeu, I., Pruessner, G., et al. (2020). Regulation of ERK basal and pulsatile activity control proliferation and exit from the stem cell compartment in mammalian epidermis. PNAS, 117(30), 17796–17807.a
Sahai, E., Astsaturov, I., Cukierman, E., et al. (2020). A framework for advancing our understanding of cancer-associated fibroblasts. Nat Rev Cancer, 20, 174–186.
Vietri Rudan, M., Mishra, A., Klose, C., et al. (2020). Human epidermal stem cell differentiation is modulated by specific lipid subspecies. PNAS, 117(36), 22173–22182.
Srivastava, D., Watt, F., & Daley, G. (2020). Stem Cell Research Responds to COVID-19: Deepak Srivastava, Fiona Watt, and George Daley. Cell Stem Cell, 26(6), 811–814.
Watt, F. M. (2018). (More) women in science. Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol, 19, 413–414.
Watt, F. (2018). Mentoring the Next Generation: Fiona Watt. Cell Stem Cell, 22(4), 469–608.