The Placenta at Term
The 2025 Loke CTR annual meeting theme, “The Placenta at Term,” brought together leading clinical and basic scientists to explore topics including placental ageing, senescence, prolonged pregnancy, and the pathophysiology of term complications as pre-eclampsia.
Where: Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge CB3 0DS
When: Monday 7th and Tuesday 8th July 2025
Format: Hybrid
Programme: Click here to download the programme, or view below.
Speakers:
Alexander Heazell
University of Manchester
'Understanding the origins and significance of placental lesions relating to late pregnancy loss and stillbirth.'
Ananth Karumanchi
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
'Vascular Mechanisms for Preeclampsia'
Annetine Staff
Oslo University Hospital
'The twilight placenta and late placenta malperfusion: A tribute to Chris Redman'
Catherine Aiken
University of Cambridge
'Long-term outcomes of pregnancies complicated by placental dysfunction'
David Williams
University College London
'Placental inflammation: a preventable cause of recurrent stillbirth'
Gordon Smith
University of Cambridge
'Maternal serum biomarkers of human placental function near term'
Karen Forbes
University of Leeds
'The placenta in pregnancies complicated by maternal diabetes'
Perrie O'Tierney-Ginn
Tufts University
'Impact of maternal-placental crosstalk on fetal fat accrual: lessons from the term placenta'
Yan-Ling Wang
Chinese Academy of Sciences
'Multilayered Regulatory Network of Placental Hormone Production: An Exploration into the Endocrine Pathogenesis of Preeclampsia'
Venue
The annual meeting was held at Churchill College and online. Churchill College, founded in 1960, is set amongst picturesque parkland of one of the largest Cambridge campuses, but still only a short walk from central Cambridge.
Churchill’s alumni includes the in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) pioneer Professor Sir Robert Edwards whose records are held in the Churchill Archives Centre.
Call for posters & flash talks
We invited abstract submissions for flash talk and poster presentation for the 2025 Annual Meeting on topics related to the placenta at term.
Registration and fees for 2025
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Loke CTR members* |
Free |
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Academic (non-members) |
£50 |
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Industry |
£150 |
In-person registration fee includes:
- Full access to scientific programme: oral and poster presentations, and networking on campus
- Access to the online conference portal to network with online participants
- Refreshments during the conference
Online attendance 2025
|
Loke CTR members* |
Free |
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Any non-members |
£25 |
Virtual registration fee included:
- Access to the virtual event portal (Log in details emailed a few days before the event)
- Live-stream sessions, including online networking channels
* Please note that this includes honorary members and group members of Loke CTR group leaders. More information on membership can be found on our membership page.
Online attendance bursariesThe Loke Centre for Trophoblast Research is committed to ensuring that our Annual Meeting is as inclusive and accessible as possible. We recognise that financial constraints can be a barrier to participation, especially for students and researchers from under-resourced institutions or countries. To support accessibility, we offer a significantly subsidized registration fee of £25, for online attendance. This fee does not cover the full cost of participation, but we feel strongly that cost should not be a barrier to engagement with our community. In exceptional circumstances, we are able to waive the £25 registration fee for online participation. These bursaries are limited and intended for individuals for whom the fee represents a genuine barrier to attendance. Eligibility Criteria:
Please do not apply for a bursary if you are able to pay the £25 fee. This helps us continue to offer subsidized registration for everyone. Bursaries are only available for online participation. How to Apply: Eligible individuals may apply for a fee waiver by completing a short bursary request form by 20th June 2025: https://forms.microsoft.com/e/wJD1cHG83E |
Artwork for 2025
Our wonderful conference artwork for 2025 was created by Claudia Stocker © Vivid Biology.
Annual Meeting Sponsor
The Loke Centre for Trophoblast Research is grateful to The Company of Biologists for supporting us in uniting trophoblast research with hybrid conference technology through their Scientific Meeting and Sustainable Conferencing funds.
By convening our online and in-person audiences, we aim to invite global perspectives and participation while minimising the environmental footprint of our meetings. Climate change is an urgent global crisis with dramatic consequences for health and reproduction. Simple software solutions that enable remote participation will enable the global reproductive biology research community to make sustainability central to our work.
We invite sponsors to support the 2026 Loke CTR Annual Meeting. If you are interested in sponsoring future meetings, please contact us or download our Meeting Prospectus for details on sponsorship packages and benefits.