Anthony Watts is a British biochemist and Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Oxford and C West Maplethorpe Fellow in Biological Sciences and tutor at Saint Hugh"s College, Oxford.
Education
Anthony Watts was educated at Knighton-upon-Teme Primary School (1954-1959). Tenbury Wells Chamber of East Primary School(1959 - 1961) Ludlow School in Shropshire(1961- 1968) and at the Astbury Department of Biophysics where he obtained his Bachelor of Science (Honours) and subsequentially his Doctor of Philosophy in 1975.
Career
He is a fellow of the Royal Chemical Society, the Institute of Physics, Royal Society of Biology and Biophysical Society. In early work, lipid-protein interactions were investigated exploiting Electron spin resonance approaches to relate lipid dynamics to function. In Oxford, newly developed wide-line Nuclear magnetic resonance was developed to characterize surface specificity of lipid-protein and peptide interactions in membranes.
More recently, novel solid state Nuclear magnetic resonance approaches have been developed and exploited to resolve high resolution conformational and dynamic details directly of ligand-targets interactions in the absence of target structure, with GPCRs being the current focus.
He has published using a wide range of biophysical methodologies, with a focus on understanding structural explanation of biological function -.