Dr. Tereza Cindrova Davies

Biography

Tereza Cindrova-Davies received her MPhil and PhD from the University of Cambridge. She worked as a research fellow at the University of Cambridge from 2003 to 2022 and held a lectureship in Human Genetics and Developmental Biology/Embryology at Queen Mary University of London between 2022 and 2023. In January 2024, she will return to the Loke Centre of Trophoblast Research to take on the role of Licensing Manager. Tereza has been awarded several international prizes for her research, including the Elsevier Science New Investigator Award at the IFPA meeting in Glasgow in 2005, and the Gabor Than Award for 'outstanding contributions to the field of placentology' at the IFPA meeting in Graz in 2008. Her research focuses on the role of oxidative stress in normal and pathological pregnancies, as well as placental senescence and H2S in pregnancy pathologies. Tereza's current research interests include early pregnancy, investigating early placental development, the role of uterine glands, and human yolk sac histotrophic nutrition. She has been instrumental in developing human-mouse organoid cultures to study the function of endometrial glands during early pregnancy, and has successfully derived physiologically relevant endometrial organoid cultures non-invasively from menstrual flow. Her future research will explore the reasons behind the majority of human pregnancies failing during implantation and early pregnancy loss.

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