Hormone induced adaptations in the maternal brain to support a healthy pregnancy

David R Grattan

Director, Maurice Wilkins Centre for Molecular Biodiscovery, University of Auckland

And Centre for Neuroendocrinology, University of Otago, Dunedin New Zealand

Dave obtained a PhD in Physiology in 1991 from Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand), then held a Postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (Baltimore, MD, USA), before returning to New Zealand to take up a lecturer position in the Department of Anatomy at the University of Otago in 1995. He was promoted to Professor in 2009, and became the Head of this Department in 2011.

From 2009-2013 he was the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Neuroendocrinology (Impact factor 3.5), and he also chaired the organising committee for the 8th International Congress of Neuroendocrinology in Sydney, Australia, 2014. From 2014, he is a Management Principal Investigator for the Maurice Wilkins Centre, a National Centre for Research Excellence.