Edinburgh Pregnancy Research Team

We are a multidisciplinary clinical research team using clinical and experimental research to better understand the complex interplay of maternal and fetal physiology, the impact of abnormal development on mother and child throughout their lives and the potential of new technology and therapeutics to promote optimal maternal and fetal health.

Research interests

  • Life long health of mother and child after pregnancy 
  • Prediction and prevention of stillbirth 
  • Placental and umbilical cord function at a molecular and biomechanical level 
  • Global women’s and newborn health

Key projects

  • Born in Scotland 
  • STOPPIT3 
  • MyGDM Scotland 
  • Edinburgh Reproductive Tissue BioBank 

Group members

Professor Rebecca Reynolds

Personal Chair of Metabolic Medicine and Dean International

  • Centre for Reproductive Health
  • Centre for Cardiovascular Science
  • College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine

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Dr Rosemary Townsend

Senior Clinical Fellow in Obstetrics

  • Centre for Reproductive Health

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Dr Sarah Murray

Consultant in Maternal and Fetal Medicine and Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer

  • Cetnre for Reproductive Health

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Dr Kahyee Hor

ECAT Clinical Lecturer

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Media and engagement

We recently hosted the Global Women’s Research Society Conference in Edinburgh, and all the content is available for free at the link below.

GLOW 2024 - Rising to the challenge: women and newborn health in the context of global crises 

Collaborators

Professor James Boardman 

Professor Miguel Llenares Bernabeu 

Dr Tom Macgillivray

Professor Peter Hoskins 

Dr Debbie Wake 

Professor Ewen Harrison 

Funders

Medical Research Council 

Chief Scientists Office, Scotland 

NIHR 

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation 

Novo Nordisk 

British Heart Foundation 

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