Fiona M. Watt Receives the 2024 ISSCR Achievement Award (IMAGE)
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Fiona Watt, EMBO Director and leader of a research group at EMBL-Heidelberg, Germany, is internationally recognized for her work on skin. She found markers to isolate epidermal stem cells and elucidated signaling pathways that regulate stem cell behavior. She uncovered the plasticity of epidermal stem and differentiated cells and discovered how epidermal-dermal communication controls skin homeostasis. Dr. Watt pioneered single cell analysis, defining how biophysical cues elicit transcriptional responses. She demonstrated the existence of different skin fibroblast lineages, enabling new strategies to treat fibrosis and scarring. Her work has resulted in new insights into how epidermal deregulation leads to tumor formation.
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