Dr Tereza Cindrova-Davies

Tereza Cindrova-Davies received her MPhil and PhD from the University of Cambridge. Tereza worked as a research fellow at the University of Cambridge between 2003-2022, held a lectureship in Human Genetics and Developmental Biology/Embryology at the Queen Mary University of London between 2022-2023, before returning back to the Loke Centre of Trophoblast Research in January 2024 to take on the role of the Licensing Manager. Tereza has been awarded 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 in all its aspects', at the IFPA meeting in Graz in 2008. Tereza's research has embraced the role of oxidative stress in normal and pathological pregnancies, placental senescence and H2S in pregnancy pathologies. Early pregnancy is a key area of Tereza's current research interests. Her recent research concentrates on investigating early placental development, the role of the uterine glands, human yolk sac and histotrophic nutrition. Tereza has been instrumental in developing human and mouse organoid cultures, and used these to investigate the function of the endometrial glands in early pregnancy. In addition, she recently succeeded in deriving physiologically relevant endometrial organoid cultures non-invasively from menstrual flow. Her future research is directed to explore why the majority of human pregnancies fail, either before implantation or as a result of early pregnancy loss.