News

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.

12 July 2017

" Smoking, lack of exercise, bad diet and our genes are all well-known risk factors for heart disease, cancer and diabetes. But, as researchers are beginning to understand, the environment in the womb as we first begin to grow may also determine our future" Click here to read the latest article from Research Horizons...

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). Click to read more and for a link to the full article.

5 June 2017

New paper published by Loke 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...

Dr Amanda Sferruzzi-Perri 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 investigator.

25 May 2017

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...

Dr Amanda Sferruzzi-Perri awarded grant from the Academy of Medical Sciences Springboard

12 May 2017

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...

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

5 May 2017

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.

New Post Doctoral Fellowships offered by EMBL-EBI, the NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre and the University of Cambridge’s School of the Biological Sciences in 2017. Click to see details.

4 May 2017

"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...

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 Loke 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...

PDN Scientists Create Artificial Mouse Embryo from Stem Cells