Placental Biology Course 2025
This popular course is aimed at any scientist interested in placental biology. For 2025 the course will be run in-person, in Cambridge.
When: 8th to 12th September 2025
Where: St John's College and PDN, Cambridge
Lectures will cover:
- human and mouse placental development and metabolism
- cell lineage segregation
- organoids
- materno-fetal interactions
- stem cell embryo models
- immunology
- transport
- angiogenesis
- explant cultures
- clinical study design
- clinical perspectives
- epigenetic mechanisms
- genome editing
- grant/fellowship writing
The course fee includes:
- Lectures
- Daily practical sessions
- Accommodation at St John's College
- All meals - breakfast, lunch and dinner, including three-course college dinner on the final evening
- Activities in Cambridge (punting/walking tour)
- Journal club
- Poster sessions (all successful applicants will be expected to present a poster)
- Live fellowship workshops
Not included:
- Transport to/from and within Cambridge
- Incidentals
Successful applicants will be notified by 11 April 2025.
Lectures and practical sessions to take place at Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Future sponsors!
If you’d like to be involved in sponsoring the annual Placental Biology Course please contact us, we’d love to hear from you. Email us