Lucilla Poston
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Lucilla Poston CBE | |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| Doctoral students | Lucy Chappell |
Lucilla Poston CBE is a physiologist specialising in problems during pregnancy. She is a professor of maternal and fetal health at King's College London.
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]
