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What is the Placental Biology Course?
An online, on demand course comprising lectures and daily interactive live sessions.
Aimed at students, post-docs, established researchers, medical and veterinary healthcare professionals and industry colleagues interested in cutting-edge placental biology and research.
- Human & mouse placental development
- Organoids, explant and trophoblast cultures
- Materno-fetal interactions
- Immunology
- Epigenetics and multi-omics
- Placental structure, transport and function
- Angiogenesis
- Clinical study design
- Placental metabolism
- Stem cell embryo models
- Genome editing
- Grant/fellowship writing
- History of human embryos
What else did the course include?
- Prerecorded content on a dedicated course page - available for over two months
- Live Q&As each day with course lecturers
- Daily flash talks from participants
- Virtual poster session hosted on Teams - on which course participants and lecturers could ask questions and comment
- Online networking between participants and lecturers on dedicated course Teams channel
- Meet and Greets with Loke CTR PIs
- Two fellowship workshops - tailored to career stage
Will there be a 2025 course?
The 2025 Placental Biology Course will be run in-person, in Cambridge from 8-12 September 2025
Places will be strictly limited to 25 and applications received will be reviewed by a panel. Applications opening end January 2025.
In the meantime complete our enquiry form for more information when it becomes available.
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.