News

Prediction of Preeclampsia paper by Ulla Sovio and colleagues

30 March 2017

A paper on the prediction of Preeclamsia has been written in the Journal of Hypertension by Ulla Sovio and colleagues. http://hyper.ahajournals.org/content/69/4/731

Viagra can protect the fetal heart

16 March 2017

Congratulations to Professor Dino Giussani and colleagues on their front cover picture in Journal of Physiology, which accompanies their latest paper. Their discovery, that the main component of Viagra can protect the fetal heart, may lead to valuable treatments in some complications of pregnancy. http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/...

Former CTR Student Selma Boulenouar publishes in Immunity

9 March 2017

Congratulations to former CTR member Selma Boulenouar for her paper 'Adipose Type One Innate Lymphoid Cells Regulate Macrophage Homeostasis through Targeted Cytotoxicity’ just published in Immunity. Selma discovered new innate lymphocytes (ILCs: including Natural killers) in adipose tissue with novel functions, including ‘...

PDN Scientists Create Artificial Mouse Embryo from Stem Cells

9 March 2017

Details of news on Magda Zernicka-Goetz's group new published article. http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/news/scientists-create-artificial-mouse-embryo-from-stem-cells

Jens Kieckbusch awarded grant from Rosetrees Trust

10 February 2017

Next Generation Fellow Jens Kieckbusch has recently been awarded a grant by the Rosetrees Trust . This three-year award will allow Jens to continue investigating how pregnancy complications impinge on the developing immune system in the offspring. Jens has also been awarded an EMBO short-term fellowship which will enable...

CTR member Francesca Gaccioli's Pregnancy Outcome Prediction (POP) paper has been published in Placenta

1 November 2016

Placental dysfunction is implicated in many major complications of pregnancy associated with adverse maternal and infant outcome, such as preeclampsia, fetal growth restriction and stillbirth. Yet, despite years of intensive research, screening for these complications is still largely based upon clinical grounds rather...

Former Graduate Student Mary Cleaton's paper is now published in Nature Genetics

31 October 2016

This research showed that a protein (known as DLK1) circulating in the mother’s blood during pregnancy is produced by the foetus and its levels may provide a readout of foetal wellbeing.

Martin Johnson gives talk at Indian Association of Clinical Embryologists meeting in Jaipur

19 October 2016

September 2016 saw Martin Johnson give the Robert Edwards Annual Oration at the Indian Association of Clinical Embryologists meeting in Jaipur, India.

Martin Johnson gives talk at 17th Royan International Congress on Reproductive Biomedicine

19 October 2016

Martin Johnson gave a plenary guest lecture at the 17th Royan International Congress on Reproductive Biomedicine in Tehran last month. The topic was on the history of ideas about the origins of trophoblast.

RCOG award for Professor Giussani

18 October 2016

Congratulations to Professor Dino A. Giussani, MA, PhD, ScD, who has been awarded a Fellowship ad eundem from The Royal College of Obstetrics & Gynaecology (RCOG)