Lucilla Poston PhD

Professor Lucilla Poston is Head of the Division of Reproduction and Endocrinology and Director of Maternal and Fetal Research Unit at Kings College London, UK . She graduated in Physiology from University College London and undertook her PhD at London University. After a Senior Lectureship in Physiology, in 1995, she was appointed to Tommy’s the Baby Charity Chair of Maternal and Fetal Health at King’s College and founded the Maternal and Fetal Research Unit, an interdisciplinary research team investigating pre-eclampsia, pre-term labour and developmental programming of adulthood disease.

Lucilla Poston is an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (UK), a Senior Investigator of the National Institutes of Health Research (NIHR) and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (UK). Her current research funding portfolio includes grants from the BBSRC (Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council), British Heart Foundation, and NIHR. She has published more 200 original research papers.