Amanda Rodgers is a Royal Society-funded PhD student in the Sferruzzi-Perri laboratory, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge. Her research is in the field of the developmental origins of health and disease, and focuses on the importance of the endocrine function of the placenta during gestation. Her research particularly focuses on how placental endocrine malfunction can lead to metabolic disorders in the offspring in later life, and uncovering the mechanisms behind this. Before her PhD, Amanda studied Biochemistry at the University of Bristol.
