ReviewDefective implantation and placentation: laying the blueprint for pregnancy complications
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Dr Errol Norwitz is Associate Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at Yale University School of Medicine, and Director of Perinatal Research and Co-Director of the Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine at Yale-New Haven Hospital. His qualifications were obtained at University of Cape Town, South Africa, Oxford University, UK, and Harvard University, USA. His research has been supported by NIH/NICHD by way of the Reproductive Scientist Development Program and the Women's
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Dr Errol Norwitz is Associate Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at Yale University School of Medicine, and Director of Perinatal Research and Co-Director of the Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine at Yale-New Haven Hospital. His qualifications were obtained at University of Cape Town, South Africa, Oxford University, UK, and Harvard University, USA. His research has been supported by NIH/NICHD by way of the Reproductive Scientist Development Program and the Women's Reproductive Health Research Scholarship and, most recently, by March of Dimes. His areas of research interest include the regulation of GnRH receptor gene expression and the molecular regulation of parturition, both term and preterm.
Paper based on contribution presented at the International Serono Symposium ‘Human implantation: the new frontiers of human assisted reproductive technologies’ in Erice, Sicily, Italy, May 5–6, 2006.