Fiona Watt obtained her DPhil, in cell biology, from the University of Oxford and carried out postdoctoral research at MIT.
She established her first research group at the Kennedy Institute for Rheumatology and then spent 20 years at the CRUK London Research Institute before moving to Cambridge for five years.
In 2012 she moved to King’s College London to found the Centre for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine. She is internationally recognised for her work on stem cells in healthy and diseased tissues and has a research interest in oral cancer.
She is a Fellow of the Royal Society and the Academy of Medical Sciences and a Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences. She is currently on secondment as UKRI Executive Chair of the Medical Research Council.
Last updated: 16 March 2023