Mark Watson
Assistant Professor
Biotechnology
Orion Genomics
Malaysia
Biography
Dr. Watson is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Laboratory Medicine at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri. He also currently serves as the Director of the Siteman Cancer Center Tissue Procurement Core Facility and as the Director of the Multiplexed Gene Analysis Core Facility at the Siteman Cancer Center in addition to serving as the Director of the American College of Surgeons Oncology Group Central Specimen Bank. Dr. Watson earned his Ph.D. in Neuroscience and his M.D. from Washington University in 1992. His laboratory specializes in characterizing the genes associated with solid tumor development in humans with the goal of developing new diagnostic tests and treatment strategies for these tumors. The Watson lab has a special focus on understanding the role that a group of novel proteins they identified, including mammoglobin, play in the development of human breast cancer.
Research Interest
Genomics
