About

Kylie Belchamber is a Lecturer in Maternal and Fetal Health at the University of Manchester, UK.

Based in the Maternal and Fetal Health Research Centre, her research is focused on understanding the innate immunology of pregnancy, the uterus, and women's health overall, with the aim of developing new therapies to promote healthy pregnancies, and improve women's health.

Previous Roles and Projects

Lecturer in Maternal and Fetal Health

University of Manchester (2024-Present)

• Decidual macrophage function in healthy and preeclamptic pregnancies
• The role of neutrophils in preeclampsia

Research Fellow

University of Birmingham (2018-2024)

• Macrophage function in AATD (Alpha-one Foundation post doctoral fellowship)
• Stockley Respiratory Early Career Researcher Fellowship
• Macrophaging and the susceptibility to infection (Vivensia Foundation Seed Award)
• Understanding the role of decidual macrophages in preeclampsia and HELLP syndrome (Preeclampsia Foundation of Canada Vision Grant)

Post doctoral Research Associate

National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London
supervised by Prof. Louise Donnelly and Prof. Peter Barnes (2012-2018)

• Cellular mechanisms of defective phagocytosis in COPD macrophages (Funded by The COPDMAP consortium (MRC-ABPI), Astra Zeneca, and Boehringer Ingelheim project grants)

PhD in Immunology

University of Surrey (2008-2012)
supervised by Prof Susanna Hourani and Dr David Hall (GSK)

• Immunomodulatory effects of ATP in human blood and lung derived dendritic cells

BSc (hons) Pharmacology

University of Portsmouth (2005-2008)