Oregon Health & Science University’s course introduces graduate students, post-doctoral fellows and early-career faculty to the field of DOHaD through a series of lectures by nationally recognized researchers.

July 28-30, 2025

OHSU - Portland, Oregon

The theme this year is "Environmental Impact on Developmental Programming" and we are excited to be collaborating with the U.S. DOHaD Society Meeting.

Learn more at www.ohsu.edu/dohadsummercourse   

The website now has a new tool for researchers looking to find labs carrying out particular areas of the research. The Lab Finder now lists laboratories by their Principal Investigator, a brief description of their research areas and techniques and a link to the laboratory’s website where more information can be found. We hope this new feature will assist researchers, especially ECRs who might be looking for a lab to join whose interests match their own.

The winner of the 2024 Joan Hunt Senior award is Dr. Estela Bevilacqua, University of São Paolo, Brazil

The winner of the 2024 Gábor Than Award is Dr. Sandra Haider, Medical University of Vienna, Austria

The winner of the 2024 Andrée Gruslin Award is Dr. Jane Cleal, University of Southampton, U.K.

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL!

The publishers and IFPA are seeking to appoint a new Asia/Pacific editor for Placenta, to begin in January 2025. This individual will work alongside the current Editor for Europe, Dr Udo Markert, the Editor for the Americas, Dr Nick Illsley, and the Editors for China Dr Yan-ling Wang and Dr Gendie Lash. The Asia/Pacific Editor received approximately 15% of the submissions (82 manuscripts) in 2023, although this number is increasing.
We are therefore seeking nominations for this editorial position. For more information, click here.

In view of the high cost to attend IFPA 2024 for international participants, IFPA is pleased to announce special awards (up to US$1000) for IFPA investigators from low income countries (see https://wellcome.org/grant-funding/guidance/low-and-middle-income-countries) to attend the meeting in Montreal. The criteria for eligibility are (1) being an established investigator (not trainee) and (2) (co-)authorship of at least one abstract. Additional criteria used for selecting awardees include previous involvement in IFPA and/or placental research, justification of the need and scientific excellence

Please send your application to Professor Hirotaka Nishi (nishih@tokyo-med.ac.jp) by May 1, 2024 including the title of your abstract(s), a resumé/CV (2 pages), a letter (1 page) explaining your involvement in placental research and IFPA and a justified budget plan

Important: Success of an application will require an accepted abstract. If an applicant’s abstract is not accepted, the application will be turned down. Notification will be sent after May 15, 2024. Registration must take place by June 2, 2024. Payment will be made after registration

The 2023 IFPA meeting was held 5– 8 of September 2023 at the Novotel Lakeside Hotel, Rotorua, New Zealand  The meeting theme was “Whenua: the foundation of life” which pays respect to the Māori people of New Zealand, who place great cultural importance on the placenta (whenua), and for whom it is customary to bury their placenta on traditional tribal lands to tie them back to their ancestry.

The meeting was attended by 294 delegates in total, with good representation from all parts of the globe. The meeting programme included workshop sessions, symposia, poster sessions and award lectures.  As is customary in New Zealand, the meeting was opened with the blessing of the local iwi (Māori tribe), who spoke in Te Reo of the importance of the placenta.

The meeting featured a number of social events including the welcome function held on the Tuesday evening at the Skyline, where after a gondola ride up delegates could choose to participate in some luging down the hill.  This proved very popular, and resulted in some excellent photos (see below!) as well as some new introductions made on the rides back up the chairlift. Wednesday night saw the New Investigators head to The Beer Garden for a social mixer, and Thursday evening provided delegates the opportunity to sign up for a trip to the Redwoods Treewalk – which is lit up beautifully at night.  Finally, the meeting ended with a gala dinner held at Te Puia, where delegates dined and danced framed by Māori carvings.