Susan Wray

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Sue Wray
Cell signalling[1]
InstitutionsUniversity College London
University of Liverpool
ThesisFactors controlling involution of connective tissue in the uterus (1980)
Doctoral advisorRobert Harkness[citation needed]
Websitewww.liverpool.ac.uk/translational-medicine/staff/susan-wray/

Susan C. Wray

cell signalling.[1][12]

Education

After attending the local authority-run

PhD from University College London for research investigating gestational changes in the connective tissue of the uterus.[13]

Career and research

After

hypoxia increase uterine contractions during labour.[21] Her work has also investigated the use of plant-derived cyclotides as well as modifications to the natural hormone oxytocin[22] to serve as templates for novel compounds to accelerate labor.[23] Some of her research can be seen in a video of one of her lectures.[24]

Women in Science

Wray has been engaged with gender equality and mentoring throughout her career. She is an academic champion for the Higher Education Foundation AURORA Women in Leadership Scheme.

Susan Greenfield.[14][28] This book has been used as a source to encourage the writing of more Wikipedia articles about women physiologists. Wikipedia:Meetup/UK/University of Manchester Women in Physiology, October 2019

Awards and honours

Wray was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci) in 2002,[2][29] an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (FRCOG) in 2006[30] and a member of the Academia Europaea (MAE) in 2008.[31] She was awarded the Joan Mott Prize Lecture by The Physiological Society in 2006 and elected as an honorary member of the Physiological Society in 2015.[32] In 2012 she was nominated a knowledge hero by the Liverpool Echo'.[33]

References

  1. ^ a b c Susan Wray publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ a b "Ordinary Fellows: Professor Susan Wray". acmedsci.ac.uk. The Academy of Medical Sciences.
  3. ^ Susan Wray publications from Europe PubMed Central
  4. ^ "Executive Committee". International Union of Physiological Sciences. Retrieved 2022-06-08.
  5. ^ "Executive Committee FEPS". feps.org.
  6. ^ "Prof Susan Wray BSc, PhD, FRCOG, FMedSci". liv.ac.uk. University of Liverpool.
  7. ^ "Editor-in-Chief and Deputy appointed for Physiological Reports". Physiology News (89): 8. 2012.
  8. ^ "Current Research in Physiology Editorial Board".
  9. ^ "New £2.5m research centre in Liverpool launched to save babies and improve births". liverpoolecho.co.uk. 2013-04-26.
  10. ^ "Harris Programme Grant". 2015-02-16.
  11. ^ "Athena SWAN". 2015-01-18.
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  13. ^ Wray, Susan C. (1980). Factors controlling involution of connective tissue in the uterus. london.ac.uk (PhD thesis). Copac 12996362.
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  24. ^ The Physiological Society (26 August 2016). "Keynote lecture: Susan Wray" – via YouTube.
  25. ^ "Leadership Foundation: Aurora". lfhe.ac.uk. Retrieved 2015-11-03.
  26. ^ "Guest Lecture - Professor Susan Wray, University of Liverpool - Events". edgehill.ac.uk. Retrieved 2016-06-18.
  27. ^ "SUSTAIN". acmedsci.ac.uk. Academy of Medical Sciences. Retrieved 2015-11-03.
  28. ^ "Women in physiology".
  29. ^ "Demystifying the uterus for better births - The Academy of Medical Sciences". acmedsci.ac.uk.
  30. ^ "Fellows ad eundem". Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists. Retrieved 2019-07-31.
  31. ^ "Academy of Europe: Wray Susan". www.ae-info.org.
  32. ^ "Honorary Members S-Z". The Physiological Society. Retrieved 2019-06-25.
  33. ^ "Who is the Liverpool ECHO's Knowledge Hero? Professor Sue Wray from the University of Liverpool". liverpoolecho.co.uk. 29 October 2012. Retrieved 2015-11-03.