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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)

Best Oral Presentation at conference by Romina Plitman

14 October 2016

Romina Plitman, Graduate student was awarded the best oral presentation at the 2016 CMBBE conference in Tel Aviv. http://cmbbe2016.com/program/awards.html

Awardees of the Prestigious Loke New Investigator Award

22 September 2016

Congratulations to the 40 awardees of the prestigious Loke New Investigator Travel Grants at the recent IFPA meeting in Portland, Oregon. Awardees came from 16 different countries, a testimony to the depth of new talent in the field of placental biology. We wish them every success in their future careers.

Kings Fellow - Professor Ashley Moffett and Dr Francesco Colucci have jointly received and Invesigator Award from the Wellcome Trust

13 September 2016

Kings Fellow - Professor Ashley Moffett and Dr Francesco Colucci have jointly received and Invesigator Award from the Wellcome Trust. Full article: http://www.kings.cam.ac.uk/news/2016/moffett-colucci-award.html

Loke CTR members Andrew Sharkey, Ashley Moffett and Francesco Colucci were recently awarded an MRC Grant investigating how interactions between maternal uterine NK cells and fetal trophoblast cells

30 August 2016

Loke CTR members Andrew Sharkey, Ashley Moffett and Francesco Colucci were recently awarded an MRC project grant. This award will allow them to continue their research investigating how interactions between maternal uterine NK cells and fetal trophoblast cells regulate placental development. Genetic and functional studies...