Keratinocytes in Normal Tissue and in Tumours

Active at CRUK CI:2006-2012
Current position:Director of the Centre for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine, King’s College London

From 2006 to 2012, Prof Fiona Watt was Deputy Director of the CRUK CI and Deputy Director of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Stem Cell Research, University of Cambridge. The Watt group investigated how stem cell renewal and differentiation are controlled in normal tissue, in the hope of identifying new approaches to preventing and controlling tumours of the epidermis and other stratified squamous epithelia.