Lucilla Poston

Professor Lucilla Poston CBE is a leading academic in Maternal & Fetal Health at the School of Life Course & Population Sciences, King's College London. Her research focuses on maternal nutrition, obesity, gestational diabetes, and the developmental origins of health and disease, utilizing mother-child cohorts and electronic health record linkages.

• President, International Society for Developmental Origins of Health and Disease
• NIHR Senior Investigator Emeritus (2017)
• CBE for Services to Women’s Health (2017)
• Top 1000 female scientist by Research.com (2024)

Her work includes the UPBEAT trial and eLIXIR cohort, investigating cardiometabolic outcomes and population-level disease origins. She has contributed to 491 research outputs, including systematic reviews on gestational diabetes interventions and pre-eclampsia biomarkers.

Scientific Awards:

• Commander of the British Empire (CBE)
• NIHR Senior Investigator Emeritus
• Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences
• Honorary Fellow, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
• Research.com Top Female Scientist (2024)