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, Dr 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:
- Congratulations to Sung Gong, Professor Steve Charnock-Jones and colleagues on their ‘shiny’ new paper.
A study reporting high-quality placenta transcriptome based on the POPS study is published in Nature […] - Maternal natural killer cells at the intersection between reproduction and mucosal immunity
Evgeniya (Zhenya) Shmeleva and Francesco Colucci sum up the knowns of natural killer cells and […] - Slowing of fetal growth and elevated maternal serum sFLT1:PlGF are associated with early term spontaneous labor
A study led by Ulla Sovio and Gordon Smith at the Department of Obstetrics and […] - The CD94/NKG2A inhibitory receptor educates uterine NK cells to optimize pregnancy outcomes in humans and mice
The uterus of mammalian species (including humans and model organisms such as mice) contains many […] - Placenta is a dumping ground for genetic defects
Congratulations to Professors Gordon Smith and Steve Charnock-Jones on the publication of their paper in […]