Dr Paulina Latos

Paulina Latos is an Associate Professor at the Medical University of Vienna, Austria, where she leads a research group investigating the transcriptional networks governing mouse and human placental development and disease. After completing her PhD in Prof. Denise Barlow’s laboratory in Vienna, she pursued postdoctoral research at the University of Cambridge with Prof. Brian Hendrich and Prof. Myriam Hemberger, supported by an EMBO Long-Term Fellowship. In 2013, she received the Next Generation Fellowship from the Centre for Trophoblast Research. Her research focuses on the molecular mechanisms that regulate cell-fate decisions, cellular identity, and placental development.