Professor Matthew Watt
Head, Department of Physiology School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne
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Health & Medicine
Podcast
The complex relationship between prostate cancer and obesity
Men with obesity have been associated with more aggressive forms of prostate cancer, and poorer treatment outcomes. Professor Matt Watt is researching the relationship between these diseases and how we can prevent them from progressing.
Health & Medicine
Different fat cell types may be key to obesity
Research has discovered that not all fat cells are the same – some release fat into the body and some help to burn fat – so getting the balance right may help fight obesity
Health & Medicine
Prostate cancer: Starving out the enemy
By blocking a cancer cell’s access to the ‘fuel’ it needs to grow, researchers hope to develop a new therapy for prostate cancer