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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...

Imagine a world without borders: animmunologist’s thoughts on Brexit by Dr Francesco Colucci

30 August 2016

“Imagine a world without borders: animmunologist’s thoughts on Brexit” Dr Francesco Colucci http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.15252/embr.201643019/full

Francesco Colucci and Ashley Moffett awarded a Welcome Trust Joint Investigator Award

10 May 2016

King,s Fellow - Professor Ashley Moffett and Dr Francesco Colucci have jointly received an Investigator Aware from the Wellcome Trust. http://www.kings.cam.ac.uk/news/2016/moffett-colucci-award.html

Romina Plitman's three-dimensional modeling of human placental terminal villi

10 May 2016

Romina Plitman, along with other members of the Loke CTR has recently published a paper on Three-dimensional modeling of human placental terminal villi . Placental transport is the main factor affecting the health and development of the fetus. Due to the placenta's geometrical and mathematical complexity, the structure-...

New publication for Peter Rugg-Gunn!

5 May 2016

Peter et al's paper The pluripotency factor Nanog regulates pericentromeric heterochromatin organization in mouse embryonic stem cells was recently published in Genes and Development. This research, led by the Babraham Institute with collaborators in the UK, Canada and Japan, has revealed a new understanding of how an open...