Websites
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Watt Group | Translational Research in Osteoarthritis
Research Group, Kennedy Institute
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Can new tests and treatments be developed for OA?
Theme lead, OA Centre
Fiona Watt
B.Med.Sci, MBBS, PhD, FRCP
Departmental Senior Research Fellow
- UKRI Future Leaders Fellow
- Honorary consultant rheumatologist, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre
Fiona is an Associate Professor at the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, NDORMS at the University of Oxford and was appointed as an honorary consultant rheumatologist at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford in 2013. She leads the Clinical Translation theme within the Centre for Osteoarthritis Pathogenesis funded by Versus Arthritis. In 2019 she was awarded a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship.
She has a PhD in cartilage biochemistry from Imperial College London, and completed specialist training in rheumatology in West London. She has first class honours degrees for both B.Med.Sci and MBBS from University of Newcastle-Upon Tyne.
Her research interest is in the diagnosis, stratification and treatment of osteoarthritis.
She is Musculoskeletal Disorders Research Advisory Group lead for Versus Arthritis, and also a clinical spokeswoman for the charity. Fiona won an OARSI Young Investigator award in 2014 and the British Society for Rheumatology's Michael Mason Prize in 2016 for her work on biomarkers of joint injury.
Key publications
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Src and fibroblast growth factor 2 independently regulate signaling and gene expression induced by experimental injury to intact articular cartilage.
Watt FE. et al, (2013), Arthritis rheum, 65, 397 - 407
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Acute Molecular Changes in Synovial Fluid Following Human Knee Injury: Association With Early Clinical Outcomes.
Watt FE. et al, (2016), Arthritis rheumatol, 68, 2129 - 2140
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Harmonising data collection from osteoarthritis studies to enable stratification: recommendations on core data collection from an Arthritis Research UK clinical studies group.
Kingsbury SR. et al, (2016), Rheumatology (oxford), 55, 1394 - 1402
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Night-time immobilization of the distal interphalangeal joint reduces pain and extension deformity in hand osteoarthritis.
Watt FE. et al, (2014), Rheumatology (oxford), 53, 1142 - 1149
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Hand osteoarthritis, menopause and menopausal hormone therapy.
Watt FE., (2016), Maturitas, 83, 13 - 18
Recent publications
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Clinical and molecular associations with outcomes at 2 years after acute knee injury: a longitudinal study in the Knee Injury Cohort at the Kennedy (KICK).
Garriga C. et al, (2021), Lancet rheumatol, 3, e648 - e658
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Cartilage repair activity during joint-preserving treatment may be accompanied by osteophyte formation
Jansen MP. et al, (2021), Applied sciences, 11
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Prevention of post-traumatic osteoarthritis at the time of injury: where are we now, and where are we going?
Mason D. et al, (2021), J orthop res
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Post-traumatic OA (PTOA): what have we learned to advance osteoarthritis?
WATT F., (2020), Current opinion in rheumatology
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CARTILAGE REPAIR ACTIVITY DURING JOINT-PRESERVING TREATMENT MAY BE ACCOMPANIED BY OSTEOPHYTE FORMATION
Jansen M. et al, (2020), Annals of the rheumatic diseases, 79, 797 - 798