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Dr Roser Vento-Tormo awarded an Early Career Research Award from the Biochemical Society

25 March 2020

Dr Roser Vento-Tormo, Group Leader at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, is one of the ten researchers to have been honoured in the 2021 Biochemical Society Awards . These prestigious awards recognise excellence and achievement by eminent scientists and by researchers in the early stages of their career. “I am thrilled to...

Study predicts fetal growth restriction using metabolomics

12 March 2020

A study by Ulla Sovio, Gordon Smith and colleagues, published in Nature Medicine, has identified metabolites predictive of fetal growth restriction (FGR) at term. The study was funded by NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre (Women’s Health theme), Medical Research Council, Wellcome Trust, National Institutes of Health...

CTR visitor Giulia Avellino to receive the President's Plenary Award

24 January 2020

Loke CTR visitor Giulia Avellino to receive the President's Plenary Award at the Society for Reproductive Investigations meeting in Vancouver. The President's Plenary Awards recognize the four highest ranked abstracts chosen from over 1000 abstracts for presentation at the President's New Investigator Plenary Session. Many...

Loke CTR member Yassen Abbas publishes paper on "Tissue stiffness at the human maternal-fetal interface"

9 October 2019

Loke CTR member Yassen Abbas has recently published a paper on "Tissue stiffness at the human maternal-fetal interface". Summary and link below. Yassen's work is funded by both Loke CTR and the Isaac Newton Trust. Summary: Mechanics is now widely recognised as an important regulator of cell behaviour. However, it has...

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...