17 May 2018
Royal Society PhD Studentship (Four years) available at CTR to conduct research under the supervision of Dr Amanda Sferruzzi-Perri (Role of placental endocrine malfunction in the programming of disease in offspring)
23 Apr 2018
Congratulations to CTR members Janne Rozemarijn Smit, Jyothi Jayaraman, Nadia Capatina and Hannah Yong who all won prizes at the 2018 PDN symposium!
29 Mar 2018
Warm congratulations to Romina Plitman, CTR funded PhD student, who has recently been approved for the PhD degree after a successful viva!
28 Mar 2018
Many congratulations to Professor Azim Surani from the Gurdon Institute who won the 2018 Canada Gairdner International Award along with Davor Solter of the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics!
19 Mar 2018
Congratulations to Dr Sferruzzi-Perri who has been awarded a New Investigator Research Grant from the MRC for work on biomarkers of materno-fetal health and the role of placental endocrine mediators in normal and obese pregnancies!
9 Feb 2018
Congratulations to Loke CTR Next Generation Research Fellow Dr Simon Tunster who secured an Early Career Grant from the Society for Endocrinology!
7 Feb 2018
View mouse pre-implantation blastocyst immunostained for DNA in blue and microtubules in green. Some cells in both the trophectoderm and the inner cell mass are undergoing mitosis. Imaged by Nadia Capatina CTR PhD student
24 Nov 2017
Professor Dino Giussani awarded the 2017 Nick Hales Award by The International Society for Developmental Origins of Health & Disease (DOHaD).
29 Sep 2017
Loke CTR PhD student Oisin Huhn wins first prize for best poster at the 18th Cambridge Immunology Forum, a one-day conference attended by Editors of Nature and Science who judged the posters.
29 Sep 2017
CTR PhD student Oisin Huhn wins the first prize for best poster at the 18th Cambridge Immunology Forum, a one-day conference attended by Editors of Nature and Science who judged the posters. Oisin Huhn is a PhD student in Francesco Colucci and Ashley M
21 Sep 2017
Congratulations to former CTR members Kathy Niakan and Norah Fogarty on their paper in Nature describing the central importance of the gene OCT4 to human embryonic development as shown using CRISPR gene editing of human blastocysts for the first time.
1 Sep 2017
Success for CTR members at IFPA Manchester: Hannah Yong received a Harold Fox New Investigator Award; Joanna Rakoczy and Nadejda Capatina both won a Y.W Loke New Investigator Award.
25 Aug 2017
Tina Napso, a Marie Curie Fellow in the Sferruzzi-Perri lab was awarded the Early Career Grant from the Society for Endocrinology.
25 Aug 2017
Tina Napso, a Marie Curie Fellow in the Sferruzzi-Perri lab was awarded the Early Career Grant from the Society for Endocrinology.
12 Jul 2017
Breath of life: how your risk of heart disease may stem back to your time in the womb. Read the latest article published in Research Horizons on the work of CTR members.