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2025 Placental Biology Course Speakers

Irving Aye
Translating placental research; trophoblast culture 
Thorsten Boroviak
Primate embryogenesis 
Graham Burton
Placental development
Stephen Charnock-Jones
Placental angiogenesis
Tereza Cindrova-Davies
Early pregnancy development; placental histology and culture
Francesco Colucci
Immune responses in pregnancy
Miguel Constancia
Mouse genetic models
Marta Shahbazi 
Aneuploidy
Dino Giussani
Developmental programming
Courtney Hanna
Placental multi-omics
Nick Hopwood
History of human embryos
Geraldine Jowett
Human germline development
Naomi McGovern
Congenital infection
Catherine Aiken
Pregnancy complications
Ashley Moffett
Clinical immunology 
Andrew Murray 
Placental metabolism; Placental respirometry  
Kathy Niakan 
Genome editing 
Sue Ozanne 
Obesity and diabetes in pregnancy
Vicente Perez-Garcia
Invasive placental cell signature
Peter Rugg-Gunn
Human peri-implantation development
Claire Senner 
Trophoblast stem cells
Amanda Sferruzzi-Perri
Placental endocrinology
Kay Elder
Assisted reproductive technologies 
Andrew Sharkey
Uterine NK cells 
Gordon Smith
Clinical study design
Margherita Turco
Placental and endometrial organoids
Erica Watson
Mouse placental development


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

Registration and key dates

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. One bursary place available, the option to apply for this is within the application form.  

Applications Open!

Deadline for applications 21 March
Successful applicants will be notified by 11 April 2025

 

Course Fees  

Residential  

          £1325

Non-residential (Cambridge applicants only)

            £975 

 

Any questions? Contact us

 

Testimonials

"Thank you for organising this enriching course: being able to learn more about placental biology from such clear and comprehensive lectures was an incredible opportunity."

Miriam Toffoli, University of Trieste

 
“A huge thanks to the lecturers and organizers, for the incredible experience and knowledge gained!” (feedback via LinkedIn)

Yasmin Azizbayli, University of Nottingham

 
"First, thank you for the organization of this great course! It was very exciting and motivating to see so many different sub-topics and backgrounds of lecturers in the course."

Malva Doroshenko, Karolinska Institute
 

“Thank you very much, this course exceeded all my expectations. Thank you for making it online, these initiatives break down barriers and make knowledge accessible to everyone.”

Lyda Forero, University of Illinois