Roger Smith

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Distinguished Laureate Professor

University of Newcastle Australia

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Roger Smith is a Distinguished Laureate Professor at the University of Newcastle, Australia. His research primarily focuses on maternal health, preterm birth prevention, and the physiological roles of extracellular vesicles during pregnancy. Recent publications include studies on tocolytic assessment, the effects of molybdenum supplementation, and strategies to reduce maternal mortality in low- and middle-income countries.

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Optimising Future Human Health by Optimising Birth Outcomes

Open Date: 2018-01-01

Close Date: 2022-12-31

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Title: Indigenous Counselling and Nicotine (ICAN) QUIT in Pregnancy - a cluster randomised trial to implement culturally competent evidence-based smoking cessation for pregnant Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander smokers

Open Date: 2017-01-01

Close Date: 2021-12-31

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Title: â Indigenous Counselling and Nicotine (ICAN) QUIT in Pregnancyâ - a cluster randomised trial to implement culturally competent evidence-based smoking cessation for pregnant Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander smokers

Open Date: 2017-01-01

Close Date: 2021-12-31

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Understanding the myometrial transition at term and preterm labour to guide tocolysis

Open Date: 2017-01-01

Close Date: 2019-12-31

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How the placental protein Syncytin impairs maternal immune responses to influenza

Open Date: 2016-01-01

Close Date: 2018-12-31

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Rebecca M Reynolds

Professor of Metabolic Medicine

University of Edinburgh

UNITED KINGDOM

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Wrivu Martin

Hunter New England Local Health District

AUSTRALIA

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Yogavijayan Kandasamy

AUSTRALIA

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Roger Young

Chief Medical Officer

Pretzel Therapeutics

UNITED STATES

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Sonika Tyagi

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RMIT University

AUSTRALIA

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Zakia Sultana

Newcastle University

AUSTRALIA

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Shanna Fealy

Charles Sturt University

AUSTRALIA

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Md Hossain

Newcastle University

AUSTRALIA

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Craig Pennell

Professor and Chair Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Professor Maternal Fetal Medicine

Newcastle University

AUSTRALIA

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Michael Jones

Queensland University of Technology

AUSTRALIA

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Marina Paul

Newcastle University

AUSTRALIA

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Preventing Preterm Birth: The Search for Tocolytic Synergism

Assessing Tocolytic Potency: Variability and Accuracy of AUC Versus Amplitude-Based Assessment of Pregnant Human Myometrial Contractions Ex Vivo

Effects of Molybdenum Supplementation in the Form of Ammonium and Sodium Salts on Trophoblast Cell Physiology and Gene Expression In Vitro

The Relationship between Maternal Smoking and Infant Birth Weight: Improving Accuracy through Urine Cotinine Analysis and Effective Medical Record Strategies

Placental Element Content Assessed via Synchrotron-Based X-ray Fluorescence Microscopy Identifies Low Molybdenum Concentrations in Foetal Growth Restriction, Postdate Delivery and Stillbirth

A low maternal mortality ratio requires an effective health system that values women

Reducing maternal mortality in low- and middle-income countries: the Nepalese approach of helicopter retrieval

Human placenta releases extracellular vesicles carrying corticotrophin releasing hormone mRNA into the maternal blood

Regulation of 20α-Hydroxysteroid Dehydrogenase Expression in Term Pregnant Human Myometrium Ex Vivo

20α-Hydroxysteroid Dehydrogenase Expression in the Human Myometrium at Term and Preterm Birth: Relationships to Fetal Sex and Maternal Body Mass Index

Involvement of oxidative stress in placental dysfunction, the pathophysiology of fetal death and pregnancy disorders

Preterm labor with and without chorioamnionitis is associated with activation of myometrial inflammatory networks: a comprehensive transcriptomic analysis

Assessing the Potency of the Novel Tocolytics 2-APB, Glycyl-H-1152, and HC-067047 in Pregnant Human Myometrium

Extracellular vesicles- crucial players in human pregnancy.

Newcastle 1000 (NEW1000) Study: an Australian population-based prospective pregnancy cohort study design and protocol

Does the Micronutrient Molybdenum Have a Role in Gestational Complications and Placental Health?

Defining the role of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis in the relationship between fetal growth and adult cardiometabolic outcomes

Preterm Birth and Corticotrophin-Releasing Hormone as a Placental Clock

Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors: Providing New Insights and Therapeutic Avenues for Unlocking Human Birth

Insights into fetal death—a patient resource

Modeling the Predictive Value of Evidence-Based Referral Criteria to Support Healthy Gestational Weight Gain among an Australian Pregnancy Cohort

Collaborators (11)

Rebecca M Reynolds

Wrivu Martin

Yogavijayan Kandasamy

Roger Young

Sonika Tyagi

Zakia Sultana

Shanna Fealy

Md Hossain

Craig Pennell

Michael Jones

Marina Paul

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