Cathie Martin
About Cathie Martin
Cathie is a group leader at the John Innes Centre and Professor at the University of East Anglia. Her interests span from fundamental to applied plant science.
She researches into the relationship between diet and health and how crops can be fortified to improve diets and address the global challenge of escalating chronic disease. This work has involved linking leading clinical and epidemiological researchers with plant breeders and metabolic engineers to develop scientific understanding of how diet can help to maintain health, promote healthy ageing and reduce the risk of chronic disease. Cathie is also involved in genetic screens to identify crops which lack toxins that cause nutritional diseases.
Cathie is Editor-in-Chief of The Plant Cell, through which she has been piloting new features in scientific publishing, including ‘Teaching Tools in Plant Biology’, a member of EMBO, AAAs, and she was recently awarded an MBE for services to Plant Biotechnology.