Dr Steven Watterson

Biography

Dr Steven Watterson is a Computational Biologist at the Northern Ireland Centre for Stratified Medicine with research interests in cholesterol metabolism and its role in cardiovascular disease, and also in the development of new mathematical and computational biology approaches to studying biological systems.

Research Interest

Steven’s research focuses on the networks of interactions that exist between genes, proteins and small molecules that determine biological function. In particular, Steven is interested in how the dynamics of these networks alter in disease, how they vary within and between populations and how they can be reprogrammed therapeutically.