Elizabeth Cottrell

Elizabeth Cottrell is a Lecturer in Maternal and Fetal Health at the University of Manchester, affiliated with the Division of Developmental Biology & Medicine. Her research focuses on maternal and fetal health during pregnancy, particularly environmental influences and therapies to improve outcomes. She holds a BSc (Hons) in Physiology from the University of Otago (2004) and a PhD from the University of Cambridge (2009).

Her work addresses how maternal physiology impacts fetal health and lifelong disease risks, with a major goal of identifying interventions to optimize pregnancy outcomes. Key areas include placental dysfunction, hypertension, nitric oxide pathways, and maternal microbiota influences. She leads projects like the Maternal & Fetal Health Research Centre and Tommy's 2024-2025 Annual Budget initiative.

Dr Cottrell has received a British Heart Foundation Fellowship (2015) and contributes to professional societies including the Society for Endocrinology and The Physiological Society. Her recent studies span nitrate supplementation effects, microbiota impacts, and clinical trials for hypertension management. She collaborates internationally and has supervised four academic works.