School of Women's and Infants' Health
Our research into all areas of medicine concerning birth covers a range of topics from prevention of pre-term births to the prediction and prevention of perinatal brain injury.
Specialist areas
- Fetal medicine and surgery
- Prevention of pre-term birth
- Fetal origins of child and adult disease
- Twin–twin transfusion syndrome
- Prenatal diagnosis
- Inflammation-associated preterm labour
- Anti-inflammatory modalities to prevent preterm labour
- Fetal membrane apoptosis and premature rupture
- Placental drug transport
- Lipid-derived mediators in placental growth and function in pregnancy
- Fetal health and disease using the Sheep Model
- Intrapartum care
- Perinatal genomic and proteomic research with an emphasis on pre-term birth and the developmental origins of adult disease
- Prediction and prevention of perinatal brain injury
University information
CRICOS Code: 00126G
