Lucilla Poston
Lucilla Poston CBE | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | British |
| Education | Felsted School |
| Alma mater | University of London |
| Known for | human physiology; disorders of pregnancy |
| Awards | 2017 CBE |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | King's College, London |
Lucilla Poston CBE is a physiologist specialising in problems during pregnancy. She is a professor of maternal and foetal health at King's College London.
Personal life and education[]
Poston attended Felsted School in 1970, one of the first girls to be educated there after the school became co-educational.[1] She graduated with a degree in physiology from University College, London and was also awarded her doctorate by University of London.[2]
Career and research[]
She was appointed as a professor in King's College in 1995. Poston's research is about disorders of pregnancy especially when caused by maternal nutrition, and how children's lives can be affected. She has a large multidisciplinary research team with research projects that focus on premature birth, pre-eclampsia and complications from maternal obesity.[3] Poston founded and is Director of the Maternal and Fetal Research Unit which undertakes large-scale clinical trials.[4]
Her early research was into the control of the circulatory system of the placenta showed its relevance to pre-eclampsia. She led a clinical trial that changed medical practice through demonstrating that anti-oxidant supplements did not prevent pre-eclampsia.[4]
Publications[]
Poston is the author or co-author of over 440 scientific publications including:
Ninety-four authors including L. Poston, (2021) The transCampus Metabolic Training Programme Explores the Link of SARS-CoV-2 Virus to Metabolic Disease. Hormone and metabolic research 53 204-206
Authored by the Precise Network (2020) The PRECISE (PREgnancy Care Integrating translational Science, Everywhere) Network's first protocol: Deep phenotyping in three sub-Saharan African countries. Reproductive Health 17 51.
L. Poston (2001) Intrauterine vascular development: programming effects of nutrition on vascular function in the new born and adult Nutrition and Health 15 207
L. Chappell, P.T. Seed, A.L. Briley, F.J. Kelly, R. Lee, B.J. Hunt, K. Parmar, S.J. Bewley, A.H. Shennan, P.J. Steer, and L. Poston (1999) Effect of antioxidants on the occurrence of pre-eclampsia in women at increased risk: a randomised trial. The Lancet 354 810-816
Awards[]
In 2000, Poston was awarded the Joan Mott Prize Lecture by the Physiological Society.[5] In 2009 she was elected to be a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences. In 2010 Poston was awarded the G L Brown Prize Lecture by the Physiological Society. In 2017 she was made CBE for services to Women’s Health. In 2021 Poston was President of the International Society for Developmental Origins of Health and Disease.[6]
References[]
- ^ "Lucilla Poston - Medicine Manor 1970 - 1972". Felsted School. Retrieved 26 June 2021.
- ^ "Curriculum vitae - Professor Lucilla Poston" (PDF). EarlyNutrition.
- ^ "Professor Lucilla Poston CBE". King's College London. Retrieved 26 June 2021.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Professor Lucilla Poston CBE FMedSci". Academy of Medical Sciences. Retrieved 26 June 2021.
- ^ "The Physiological Society Lectures and Prizes to 2017" (PDF). Physiological Society. Retrieved 26 June 2021.
- ^ "DOHaD Council Members". DOHaD Society. Retrieved 26 June 2021.
- Living people
- 21st-century British biologists
- 21st-century British women scientists
- Academics of King's College London
- Professorships at King's College London
- British physiologists
- Commanders of the Order of the British Empire