Eleanor L. Watts, D.Phil., M.P.H.

Eleanor Watts joined the Metabolic Epidemiology Branch (MEB) as a postdoctoral fellow in August 2021. She earned her M.P.H. from the University of Edinburgh, UK, in 2014 and her D.Phil. from the University of Oxford, UK, in 2019. After completing her D.Phil., Dr. Watts worked as an Early Career Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, focusing on the associations of circulating hormones with prostate cancer risk. She received the 2023 DCEG Fellowship Achievement Award and the 2024 Fellows Award for Research Excellence.

Activity, Metabolites, and Breast Cancer

Affected metabolites include glucose regulation, amino acid, and fatty acid metabolism

In MEB, she is conducting research under the mentorship of Steven C. Moore, Ph.D., M.P.H., Senior Investigator, focusing on physical activity and adiposity in relation to cancer risk. Her work explores underlying biological mechanisms using genomic, metabolomic, and proteomic approaches.