Cathie Martin

Cathie Martin has been a group leader at the John Innes Centre, Norwich UK since 1983. She is professor at the University of East Anglia. According to her biography on the JIC website in 2012:

I am inventor on seven patents and I recently co-founded a spin-out company (Norfolk Plant Sciences) with Professor Jonathan Jones FRS, to bring the benefits of plant biotechnology to Europe and the US.

She is best known for her work on a GM purple tomato that in 2008 was hyped in headlines that claimed it could help "beat cancer", as well as keep you slim, ward off diabetes and safeguard eyesight. This was based on the fact that the tomato was engineered to contain high levels of anthocyanins, substances that are commonly available in a long list of existing fruit and vegetables. Their role, if any, in disease prevention is poorly understood, and non-GM purple tomatoes are available.

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