The Loke Centre for Trophoblast Research

2 weeks left to apply! Fully-funded 4-year PhD studentships for home or overseas students, applications open till 4 November. 🔗 Please like and share to spread the word! www.trophoblast.cam.ac.uk/phd-students...

Take a look at projects for 2025/26 www.trophoblast.cam.ac.uk/opportunitie...

Fully-funded 4-year PhD studentships for home or overseas students, applications open till 4 November. 🔗 Please like and share to spread the word! www.trophoblast.cam.ac.uk/phd-students...

Take a look at projects for 2025/26 www.trophoblast.cam.ac.uk/opportunitie...

#PhD, #PhDPosition

Looking to pursue cutting-edge research in early development, maternal-fetal interaction, or placental biology? See 👇

- Funded PhD www.trophoblast.cam.ac.uk/phd-students...
- Next Generation Fellowship www.trophoblast.cam.ac.uk/next-generat...
- MPhil www.mphil.bio.cam.ac.uk/mphil-pathwa...

Cambridge marks centenary of IVF pioneer Sir Robert Edwards’ birth Celebrations at the University of Cambridge honour the life, work and legacy of Sir Robert Edwards, whose work revolutionised fertility treatment through the

Today we celebrate the life and legacy of Bob Edwards, pioneer of IVF, welcoming over 200 visitors for a two part event to mark what would have been his 100th birthday! Read more at www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...

Are you looking to pursue innovative research in the field of placental and reproductive biology?

The Loke CTR Next Generation Fellowship is a stepping stone to research independence!
📝 Applications are open for our 2026 NGF www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51104/
🗣️ Please spread the word!

Day 1 of Placental Biology Course ✅

After a day of learning, including a hands on organoids practical, our participants enjoyed a walking tour of Cambridge before a well earned rest!

#lokectr #placentalbiologycourse25 #pbc25

🚀 We’re all set!
This Sunday marks the return of the Placental Biology Course – our first in-person for six years. 25 participants joining for lectures and practical sessions delivered by experts in the field of placental biology!

We're excited! Next week we'll be welcoming our first in person attendees since 2019 to our 2025 Placental Biology Course for a week of lectures and practical sessions.

All the live lectures are being recorded. For 2026 the course will be online. Back in person for 2027.

Just over 6 weeks till the event 'Bob Edwards centenary: His life, work and legacy'
Do you have your tickets yet? www.tickettailor.com/events/churc...

Join us for scientific sessions and a life and legacy panel discussion in the wonderful surroundings of Churchill College

Technicians are the life blood of our lab - our own Alice featured earlier this year on the technicians network Day in the Life series, if you've not seen it yet why not take a look...
www.technicians.admin.cam.ac.uk/see-technici...

#labtechnicians #labtech #lokectr

Sequencing cell-free RNA in maternal blood can predict pregnancy complications | Loke Centre for Trophoblast Research Loke CTR members Sung Gong, Gordon Smith and Steve Charnock-Jones, alongside colleagues in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, and collaborators at Illumina, have shown that raised Leptin and Pappalysin2…

Loke CTR members Sung Gong, Gordon Smith and Steve Charnock-Jones, and collaborators have shown that raised Leptin and Pappalysin2 cell-free RNAs are hallmarks of pregnancies complicated by preeclampsia with fetal growth restriction.

📖 Read more:

Guest post 🙌 by Dr Priscilla Day-Walsh @loke-ctr.bsky.social Next Generation Fellow www.trophoblast.cam.ac.uk/staff/dr-pri..., Bye-fellow @homertoncollege.bsky.social and visiting scientist @quadraminstitute.bsky.social 🧵6/7

Attended our Annual Meeting last week? Any thoughts or reflections? Jump over to our LinkedIn to let us know!

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We're excited to welcome everyone for day 1 of our annual meeting 'The Placenta at Term' see you soon!

Next week! In-person registration is now closed but you can still join online:

See the programme
www.trophoblast.cam.ac.uk/ctrconferenc...

Register online
onlinesales.admin.cam.ac.uk/conferences-...

Are you passionate about data and do you enjoy coding in Stata? Come and work with me at the Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology in Cambridge! Please share with anyone who might be interested, and feel free to reach out if you have any questions. www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51739/

The 2025 Kyoto Prize for Basic Sciences has been awarded to Professor Azim Surani for his “Discovery of Genomic Imprinting in Mammals and Elucidation of Its Molecular Mechanisms.” 🏅

Congratulations to Professor Surani on this tremendous honour! www.trophoblast.cam.ac.uk/news/azim-su...

In person registration for the Annual Meeting closes this Friday. To join us at Churchill College on 7-8 July visit
www.trophoblast.cam.ac.uk/ctrconferenc... to book your place

📣 We’re hiring!

Executive Manager (maternity cover) to help lead ops, HR, events & strategy in a collaborative, interdisciplinary research centre.

Find out more and share in your networks 👇
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51564/

Green Impact Team Member | Busma Butt I’m incredibly proud to have earned a Green Impact Sustainability Badge from Students Organising for Sustainability (SOS-UK)! This badge recognises the positive sustainability actions I’ve led as p...

Big congratulations to Busma Butt, our Chief Laboratory Research Technician, for earning a Green Impact Sustainability Badge from SOS-UK! 🌿

Fantastic work championing sustainable lab practices 👏 #Sustainability #GreenImpact #LabLeadership

www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Thank you to everyone who has registered to attend YEN 2025!
You can still register for online attendence to hear talks and look at online posters.

We have sent out a programme to our attendees so if you haven't heard from us just email us or reach out on social media.
#yen2025

We are happy to announce student and postdoc speakers. Thanks to all who submitted an abstract!
#yen2025

👇A great opportunity for a postdoc position with Naomi and Catherine - find out more at
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51127/
please share in your networks

⚡Deadline approaching!

Abstract submissions for 'The Placenta at Term' close 12 May

www.trophoblast.cam.ac.uk/ctrconferenc...

The placenta: A disposable organ we can’t live without Tiny Matters · Episode

New podcast interview on the placenta!

open.spotify.com/episode/0rnA...

We are excited to host Dr. Maxim Greenberg and Dr. Courtney Hanna this week to kickoff the Leuven Epigenetics Club!

We're excited to be hosting this event along with @chuarchives.bsky.social
📅 26 September 2025 | 🕑 2 PM – 7:30 PM
📍 Physiology Building & Churchill College
Join us for a two-part event celebrating the pioneer of IVF
🎟️ Registration now open:
www.tickettailor.com/events/churc...

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As we turn 15, we want to collect feedback from you, our community, to ensure the Node is still relevant and useful. If you’ve ever visited the Node to read, write and interact with the #DevBio & #StemCell community, thank you!

Please spare 5min to take our survey:
www.surveymonkey.com/r/7QHYQCW

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Not long now until #PDNSymposium25! Will you be visiting us on 24th and 25th April? Go to the PDN Symposium web pages to find out more and plan your day www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/postdocs/pdn... 🧪
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