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New paper published by CTR team working with Michelle Oyen and Ashley Moffett. This project is a collaboration between biologists (Ashley’s group) and bioengineers (Michelle’s group). By using microfluidic technology the team has advanced how trophoblast invasion can be studied in the lab. http://rsif.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/14/130/20170…

Dr Amanda Sferruzzi-Perri has been awarded the Andrée Gruslin Award from IFPA: the Andrée Gruslin Award is named in honour of Dr. Andrée Gruslin, a maternal-fetal medicine specialist and is offered every year to an outstanding female mid-career in the field of placental or placental-related biology. Amanda will receive the award at the IFPA meeting…

We are delighted to announce that Dr Amanda Sferruzzi-Perri has been awarded a substantial grant from the Academy of Medical Sciences Springboard in support of her project entitled: Materno-fetal resource allocation; altering placental endocrine function by IGF2.This two-year grant will allow Amanda to investigate how the placenta remote controls t…

Warmest congratulations to Anne Ferguson-Smith for her election to FRS. This is a fantastic achievement and recognition of her great contributions in the fields of genomic imprinting, epigenetics and placental biology.

"An Evolutionary Approach to Understanding Transcriptional Control in the Human Placenta"  is one of 11 joint postdoctoral fellowships offered by EMBL-EBI, the NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre and the University of Cambridge’s School of the Biological Sciences in 2017.Further details:  http://www.ebi.ac.uk/research/postdocs/ebpods/2017-pro…

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

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/news/viagra-protects-…

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 ‘physiological’ killing of …

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

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 him to establish a collabora…

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 than ultrasonic and/or bioche…

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. The team first used a mouse model with a genetic deletion in the Dlk1 gene to show that the circulating protein in maternal blood comes from the foetus. In normal…

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

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.

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)Professor Dino A. Giussani, MA, PhD, ScD was recently awarded a Fellowship ad eundem from TheRoyal College of Obstetrics & Gynaecology (RCOG)Fellowships ad eundem are awarded by the RCOGin…