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Dr Paul Michael Watt BSc(Hons) D Phil is Director of Research and Development of Phylogica Limited. As a top graduate from the University of Western Australia, Dr Watt won a Commonwealth Overseas Scholarship and he completed his doctorate at the University of Oxford. After completing Post Doctoral appointments at Oxford and Harvard Universities, he returned to Perth in 1996 as a scientist at the Institute. He now holds an appointment at the Institute as Honorary Research Fellow. Specialising in biotechnology, he has attracted over $2.5 million in research funding from Australia and the United States for the technology underpinning Phylogica. Appointed by the University of Western Australia as adjunct Senior Lecturer, Dr Watt has published widely in high impact journals and has filed 14 patent applications for the products of his research work. He is also a director of InfaMed Ltd, a public medical devices company, founded by him, which was acquired by an ASX listed biotechnology company, Visiomed Group Limited in which he is a non-executive director.