Susan Wray

Sue Wray
FMedSci FRCOG MAE
Born
Susan C. Wray
EducationChadderton Grammar School for Girls
Alma materUniversity College London (BSc, PhD)
AwardsJoan Mott Prize Lecture (2006)
Scientific career
FieldsSmooth muscle physiology
Reproduction
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 FMedSci FRCOG MAE[2] is professor of cellular and molecular physiology at the University of Liverpool.[3][1] She also serves as the President of the International Union of Physiological Sciences (IUPS)[4] and is president of the Federation of European Physiological Societies (FEPS).[5] She was the founding editor-in-chief of Physiological Reports.[6][7] and is the first editor-in-chief of Current Research in Physiology.[8] She serves as director of the centre of better births in Liverpool Women's Hospital which was opened in 2013 with funding of £2.5 million with the objective of basic scientists working together with clinicians on problems during pregnancy.[9] Along with Zarko Alfirevic [Wikidata], she leads the Harris wellbeing preterm birth centre.[10] Wray is the director of the University of Liverpool Athena SWAN and team leader for the institute of translational medicine.[11] Her primary research interests are in smooth muscle physiology, reproductive medicine and cell signalling.[1][12]

  1. ^ a b c Susan Wray publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference fmedsci was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  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.
  12. ^ Delpy, D T; Cope, M; Zee, P van der; Arridge, S; Wray, S; Wyatt, J (1988). "Estimation of optical pathlength through tissue from direct time of flight measurement". Physics in Medicine and Biology. 33 (12): 1433–1442. Bibcode:1988PMB....33.1433D. doi:10.1088/0031-9155/33/12/008. ISSN 0031-9155. PMID 3237772. S2CID 250734796.