Welcome to the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology which is located on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus. We are part of the University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine and have staff located at The Rosie Hospital and Addenbrookes Hospital. The Department is comprised of a very talented and multidisciplinary team of researchers, technicians and clinicians. Our Head of Department is Professor Gordon Smith and our Principal Investigators are Professor Steve Charnock-Jones, Professor Francesco Colucci, Dr Miguel Constancia and Dr Catherine Aiken. Research in our department falls into two broad areas.
Our research
The Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology has programmes of basic, translational and clinical research addressing the determinants of pregnancy complications.
We also often collaborate on studies at The Rosie Hospital.
Graduate Study
The Department contributes to a broad programme of graduate teaching.
Recent publications:
- Prediction of spontaneous preterm birth using supervised machine learning on metabolomic data: a case-cohort study
In a recent study led by Dr Ulla Sovio and published in BJOG, Yasmina Al … Read more - Association between adverse pregnancy outcome and placental biomarkers in the first trimester: A prospective cohort study
Congratulations to Ulla, Francesca, Emma, Steve and Gordon for their new paper published in BJOG … Read more - Objective measures of smoking and caffeine intake and the risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes
Congratulations to Dr Roshan Selvaratnam, Prof Gordon Smith and co-authors on their new paper published … Read more - The human placenta exhibits a unique transcriptomic void
The placenta is a key organ at the start of our lives. In a recent … Read more - Fetal manipulation of maternal metabolism is a critical function of the imprinted Igf2 gene
In a recent new study co-led by Miguel Constância and Amanda Sferruzzi-Perri and published in … Read more