Professor Eric Jauniaux

Eric Jauniaux has worked for over 30 years on placental and fetal development and on the diagnosis and management of placental related-complications of pregnancy.

His work on the establishment of the placental circulations in early pregnancy, on the role of oxygen in normal and abnormal placental development, and on the functions of the chorionic cavity and secondary yolk sac has enabled a better understanding of the mechanisms associated with miscarriages, the transfer pathways between the mother and her developing fetus and on the pathophysiology of placental cord anomalies such as accreta placentation, low placentation & velamentous insertion of the cord.

He is the author/co-author of over 440 peer-reviewed original articles and has edited/co-edited 13 books, including Embryonic medicine & therapy with Sir Bob Edwards (Nobel Prize in Medicine 2010). He was awarded the international prize for research in placentology by the International Placental Federations Association (IPFA) and a personal chair at UCL in 2002.

He was one of the founding editors and was section editor of Reproductive Bio-Medicine on-line 2000-2012, Associate Editor of Journal of Medical Screening (E-in-C Sir Nick Wald) 2009-2019, Perspective/Scientific Editor for BJOG since 2013 and has been on the editorial board of several journals in Obstetrics and Gynecology over the last 25 years.

I was the coordinator of the FIGO guidelines on the diagnosis and management of placenta accreta spectrum disorders (IJGO Mar 2018) and the lead developer of the RCOG GTG27 on placenta praevia, placenta accreta and vasa praevia (BJOG Jan 2019).

In 2006, he co-founded Medical Aid Films (MAF) a UK-registered charity [no 1121578] to provide multi-media programs for education and training in maternal and child health for developing countries (www.medicalaidfilms.org). MAF received the BAFTA’s Gift of the Academy in 2017 and UK Asian Voice Charity Awards in 2019.