Euan Wallace Am

Biography

Professor Euan Wallace is Co-Head (Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology) of The Ritchie Centre at Hudson Institute of Medical Research, and the Carl Wood Professor and Head of Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Monash University. As Head of The Ritchie Centre (2010-2014) he brought together leading research groups in women’s health, fetal and neonatal physiology, infant and child health and stem cell biology to create a translational research centre. Together with Professor Stuart Hooper (Centre Executive Head) and Professor Nick Freezer (Co-Head, Paediatrics), Professor Wallace continues to build The Ritchie Centre to become one of the word’s leading research centres in women’s and children’s health. 

Research Interest

Professor Wallace’s own research focuses on basic and clinical aspects of pregnancy and pregnancy care. The team has an international reputation for its Down Syndrome screening research, the investigation of inhibins and activins in pregnancy and in fetal neuroprotection. More recently, the group has established research programs in novel therapies for preeclampsia and in ethnicity related pregnancy outcomes. The group is a world leader in amnion stem cell biology and their clinical translation.