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CTR visitor Katrien De Clercq awarded the highly competitive Elsevier Placenta New Investigator Award at IFPA. Many congratulations!

4 October 2019

Loke CTR visitor Katrien De Clercq was awarded the highly competitive Elsevier Placenta New Investigator Award at the recent International Federation of Placenta Association Conference in Argentina. Many congratulations!

Many congratulations to CTR funded PhD student Nadia Capatina for successfully defending her thesis this week!

26 September 2019

Many congratulations to Loke CTR funded PhD student Nadia Capatina for successfully defending her thesis this week! Nadia is one of the six PhD students fully funded by the Loke Centre for Trophoblast Research. Nadia's aim was to investigate the effect of Endoplasmic Reticulum (ER) stress on trophoblast cell lineage...

Loke CTR member Margherita Turco awarded ERC starting grant

6 September 2019

Many congratulations to Loke CTR member Margherita Turco who was recently awarded an ERC starting grant for her project on Human Placental Development and the Uterine Microenvironment. Full details and more information on Margherita's research background are available on the University's research news website: https://www...

"Non-canonical mitochondrial unfolded protein response impairs placental oxidative phosphorylation in early-onset pre-eclampsia": new article published by Loke CTR team in PNAS

23 August 2019

"Non-canonical mitochondrial unfolded protein response impairs placental oxidative phosphorylation in early-onset pre-eclampsia": new article published by Loke CTR team (H. Yung, F. Colleoni, E. Dommett, T. Cindrova-Davies, J. Kingdom, A. Murray, and G. Burton) in PNAS. Preeclampsia endangers the lives and well-being of...

"Human placenta has no microbiome but can contain potential pathogens”: new article in Nature published by Steve Charnock-Jones and team.

23 August 2019

"Human placenta has no microbiome but can contain potential pathogens”: new paper published by Steve Charnock-Jones and team in Nature. We sought to determine whether pre-eclampsia, spontaneous preterm birth or the delivery of infants who are small for gestational age were associated with the presence of bacterial DNA in...

New important article published by CTR team in BMJ: Pre-eclampsia pathophysiology and clinical implications

16 July 2019

Pre-eclampsia: pathophysiology and clinical implications Important new article published by Loke CTR team G. Burton, C. Redman, J. Roberts and A. Moffett Read it online at: https://www.bmj.com/content/366/bmj.l2381 Abstract (copied from the British Medical Journal) Pre-eclampsia is a common disorder that particularly...

Margherita Turco awarded the L’OREAL women in science fellowship award in House of Commons

16 May 2019

Loke CTR member Margherita Turco was awarded the L’OREAL women in science fellowship award in the House of Commons on 15 May 2019. Many congratulations!

Hommage to Joan Hunt- After raising her son, she returned to school, earning her terminal degree from the University of Kansas at age 49 and eventually became one of the world's foremost reproductive immunology scientists

15 May 2019

We are saddened to hear of the passing of Joan Hunt on April 20th 2019. Joan was a University Distinguished Professor at the University of Kansas, specialising in reproductive immunology. She made several seminal discoveries regarding the role of the maternal immune system in regulating events during trophoblast invasion...

The Dance of Life, new book by Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz and Roger Highfield coming out in July 2019

13 May 2019

The Dance of Life will take you inside the incredible world of life just as it begins and reveals the wonder of the earliest and most profound moments in how we become human. Through Magda’s trailblazing research as a professor at Cambridge – where she has with her team doubled the survival time of human embryos in the...

Chris Redman recognised as a Giant in Obstetrics and Gynaecology

10 May 2019

Congratulation to Chris Redman for being recognised as a Giant in Obstetrics and Gynaecology. Full details here: https://www.ajog.org/article/S0002-9378(19)30498-3/fulltext