King's College London

Our Women’s Health Intercalated BSc will provide you with insight into current research topics and appropriate research techniques in obstetrics and reproductive physiology, as well as the related fields of assisted conception, stem cell research, women’s mental health and pediatrics. It will give you an understanding of common disease processes in pregnancy and the early-life origins of health and disease, and underline the importance of hypothesis testing by efficient experimental design.

The objective of this one-year intercalated degree course is to give you an insight into current research topics and develop appropriate research techniques in obstetrics and reproductive physiology and the related fields of assisted conception and stem cell research. It will provide you with a strong scientific foundation for a future career in reproductive and women’s health or in clinical research, and an understanding of the research background of evidence-based medicine. You will share some of your teaching modules with the third year of the Medical Physiology BSc course, and will undertake a 45-credit research project in Women & Children’s Health research.

Examples of Research Project Topics:

• Cardiovascular dysfunction in offspring of mothers with obesity in the UPBEAT RCT; associations with cord blood insulin and leptin concentrations.
• Assessment of fetal brain volume and mean T2* relaxometry in fetuses that deliver in the moderate to late preterm period.
• Blood Pressure Variability in Pregnancy and its Effect on Adverse Maternal and Perinatal Outcomes: Secondary Analysis of Born in Bradford Cohort Study.
• Decidual stromal cells as an immunotherapy for Prevention of preterm birth and fetal demise.
• Placental growth factor (PlGF) testing for pre-eclampsia
• Co-IVF in Lesbians