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2026

A Phase 1 Prognostic Trial for Predicting Paediatric Allergy Using the Placenta at Birth
Vicki L. Clifton, Zarqa Saif, Ana Patricia Balbon, Muhammad Afnan, Andrew Tai, Sailesh Kumar, Janet M. Davies, Peter D. Sly, Jane Peake, Richard Saffery, Peter J. Vuillermin, BIS Investigator Group, Brian Cox
Clinical and Experimental Allergy
DOI: 10.1111/cea.70272
2025

Acid sphingomyelinase is a gatekeeper of placental labyrinthine architecture and function.
Isidora Rovic; Katherine Szelag; Han Li; Rosanne McQuaid; Sara Sugin; Que Wu; Natalia Theodora; John Sled; Andrea Jurisicova
Development
DOI: 10.1242/dev.204425
2024

Searching for the ‘X’ factor: investigating the genetics of primary ovarian insufficiency
Anya Knight; Sara Sugin; Andrea Jurisicova
Journal of Ovarian Research

metasnf: Meta Clustering with Similarity Network Fusion in R
Prashanth S. Velayudhan; Xiaoqiao Xu; Prajkta Kallurkar; Ana Patricia Balbon; Maria T. Secara; Adam Taback; Denise Sabac; Nicholas Chan; Shihao Ma; Bo Wang; Daniel Felsky; Stephanie H Ameis; Brian Cox; Colin Hawco; Lauren Erdman; Anne L. Wheeler
arXiv

Decidual natural killer cells promote extravillous trophoblast developmental pathways: evidence from trophoblast organoid co-cultures
Morgan Zych; Natalie Lo; Kate A. Patton; Kewei Wang; Brian J. Cox
bioRxiv

Genetic co-occurrence networks identify polymorphisms within ontologies highly associated with preeclampsia
Andreea Obersterescu; Brian J. Cox
medRxiv

The Placenta Pathology Tool: an online application for understanding histopathologic lesions
Rini Lukose; Maria Mazaharally; Raymond W. Redline; Brian J. Cox
American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology

A comprehensive human embryo reference tool using single-cell RNA-sequencing data
Cheng Zhao; Alvaro Plaza Reyes; John Paul Schell; Jere Weltner; Nicolás M. Ortega; Yi Zheng; Åsa K. Björklund; Laura Baqué-Vidal; Joonas Sokka, Ras Torokovic; Brian Cox; Janet Rossant; Jianping Fu; Sophie Petropoulos; Fredrik Lanner
Nature Methods
2023

Maturation of iPSC-derived cardiomyocytes in a heart-on-a-chip device enables modeling of dilated cardiomyopathy caused by R222Q-SCN5A mutation
Marianne Wauchop; Naimeh Rafatian; Yimu Zhao; Wenliang Chen; Mark Gagliardi; Stéphane Massé; Brian J. Cox; Patrick Lai; Timothy Liang; Shira Landau et al.
Biomaterials

metGWAS 1.0: an R workflow for network-driven over-representation analysis between independent metabolomic and meta-genome-wide association studies
Saifur R Khan; Andreea Obersterescu; Erica P Gunderson; Babak Razani; Michael B Wheeler; Brian J Cox
Bioinformatics

Proinflammatory changes in the maternal circulation, maternal–fetal interface, and placental transcriptome in preterm birth
Camille Couture; Marie-Eve Brien; Ines Boufaied; Cyntia Duval; Dorothee Dal Soglio; Elizabeth Ann L Enninga; Brian Cox; Sylvie Girard
American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
2022

Here and there a trophoblast, a transcriptional evaluation of trophoblast cell models
Brian J. Cox; Kendra Naismith
Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Maternal Immune Cell and Cytokine Profiles to Predict Cardiovascular Risk Six Months after Preeclampsia
Malia S Q Murphy; Samantha J Benton; Brian Cox; Kara Nerenberg; Scott McComb; Lakshmi Krishnan; Risini D Weeratna; Jean-François Paré; Alysha L J Dingwall-Harvey; Shannon A Bainbridge; Andrée Gruslin; Laura M Gaudet
Journal of Clinical Medicine
DOI: 10.3390/jcm11144185

The amnion as a window into human pluripotency
Brian J Cox; Amy Ralston
Cell Stem Cell

Computational analysis identified accelerated senescence as a significant contribution to preeclampsia pathophysiology
Nadia Siddique; Brian Cox
Placenta

The need for more research into reproductive health and disease
Natalie D Mercuri; Brian J Cox
eLife
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.75061
Last updated: 09/2025