Colin K.W. Watts BSc (Hons), PhD. Sydney, Australia.
ABN 16 091 051 856


Professional Qualifications


Dr Colin Watts has had a long research career focusing on the molecular and cellular biology of cancer, particularly in the area of molecular mechanisms of steroids and anti-steroids eg tamoxifen in breast cancer. In recent years his research team worked on the identification and characterisation of novel cancer-related genes. He has published over 60 research papers and book chapters in these fields.

Following an undergraduate degree in Human Nutrition at the University of Otago in New Zealand, his doctoral studies were completed in the Department of Cancer Medicine, University of Sydney in 1986. Colin then held a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the ICRF in London (now Cancer Research UK) and he then became a Senior Research Fellow in the Cancer Research Program at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research, St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney until 2004. Since then he has worked as an independent scientific consultant and as the scientific communications editor for a biotechnology company. Colin also holds a Conjoint Appointment as a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Medicine, University of New South Wales.

Dr Watts has a wide-ranging familiarity with medical sciences and literature, particularly in cancer-related fields, plus strong interest in nutrition and the uses and abuses of alternative medicine. He has extensive national and international contacts with scientific and medical professionals in medical research institutes, hospitals, universities and in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries.

Please note that Dr Watts is a biomedical scientist and is not a medical practioner and offers no diagnostic or treatment advice.



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