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Kathy Niakan, former CTR NGF, named on Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People list

21 April 2016

Kathy has begun to apply the technique for editing the genome that Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna developed, called CRISPR, to study the effects of genes in human development. Well done Kathy!

Funding award for CTR Graduate Student Iva Filipovic

18 April 2016

Iva Filipovic was awarded funding for the 5th flowcytometryUK meeting taking place in Leeds in July 2016. The funding covers both registration and accommodation and this funding was limited to a maximum of three applicants from UK. Dr Leonore Herzenberg, who developed the Fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS)...

Jorge Lopez-Tello, from the Sferruzzi-Perri lab, recently won an Imanova Best Speaker Prize!

18 April 2016

Jorge Lopez-Tello, from the Sferruzzi-Perri lab, recently won an Imanova Best Speaker Prize at the PDN Symposium in April 2016. It was a very closely-run competition with the prize awarded for best presentation. Well done Jorge!

Maternal obesity and diabetes in pregnancy result in early overgrowth of the baby in the womb.

14 April 2016

"Given the risk of complications for both mother and child from gestational diabetes, our findings suggest that screening women earlier on in pregnancy may help improve the short and long term outcomes for these women" Dr Ulla Sovio, Cambridge University

CTR member Ulla Sovio talks at SMFM16 and publishes paper in Placenta

21 March 2016

CTR member Ulla Sovio talks and presents a poster at SMFM16 and publishes a paper in Placenta: The relationship between human placental morphometry and ultrasonic measurements of utero-placental blood fl ow and fetal growth. Salavati N 1 , Sovio U 2 , Mayo RP 3 , Charnock-Jones DS 4 , Smith GC 5

CTR member Courtney Hanna sweeps the board - well done Courtney!

21 March 2016

Courtney won a YW Loke New Investigator Travel Award; she also gave presentations in France and Australia and published a paper earlier on this year: Hanna CW, Penaherrera MS, Saadeh H, Andrews S, McFadden DE, Kelsey G, Robinson WP. Pervasive polymorphic imprinted methylation in the human placenta . Well done Courtney!

CTR member Martin Johnson to give 2016 Sir Robert Edwards lecture

21 March 2016

CTR member Martin Johnson will give the Sir Robert Edwards lecture in Jaipur India in July 2016 at the invitation of the Association of Clinical Embryologists (ACE) of India

What Is Trophoblast?

21 March 2016

Last month saw the publication of What Is Trophoblast? A Combination of Criteria Define Human First-Trimester Trophoblast.

Mum’s in control – even before you’re born

29 February 2016

Researchers have uncovered previously unappreciated means by which epigenetic information contained in the egg influences the development of the placenta during pregnancy. The research, which was performed in mice, indicates that a mother’s health, even before conception, may influence the health of her fetus, and opens...

November 2015

2 December 2015

CTR Members and Babraham Institute Researchers Paulina Latos and Myriam Hemberger have recently had a paper published in Genes & Development.

Kathy Niakan, former CTR NGF, named on Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People list

Funding award for CTR Graduate Student Iva Filipovic

Jorge Lopez-Tello, from the Sferruzzi-Perri lab, recently won an Imanova Best Speaker Prize!

Maternal obesity and diabetes in pregnancy result in early overgrowth of the baby in the womb.

CTR member Ulla Sovio talks at SMFM16 and publishes paper in Placenta

CTR member Courtney Hanna sweeps the board - well done Courtney!

CTR member Martin Johnson to give 2016 Sir Robert Edwards lecture

What Is Trophoblast?

Mum’s in control – even before you’re born

November 2015

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