Mark Kilby

Prof, Dame Hilda Lloyd Professor of Fetal Medicine

Accepting PhD Students

PhD projects

Mark Kilby is a clinical scientist working in the field of fetal medicine and therapy.

Professor Kilby has special clinical expertise and a clinical research interest in:
1.Prenatal diagnosis (the detection of fetal anomalies).
2.Intrauterine fetal growth restriction.
3.Fetal therapy (the treatment of the baby in-utero).
4.The management of Monochorionic twins and high order pregnancies.
5.He participates (with his colleague, Dr Denise Williams), a bi-monthly joint Fetal Medicine/Clinical Genetics Clinic. He has provided evidence based research to inform the introduction of prenatal genomics into clinical practice.

His work though focuses upon diverse themes crossing the interface between laboratory-based research and translational clinical trials in valuating diagnostic tests and therapeutic interventions.

The laboratory-based work focuses upon aspects of fetal and fetoplacental endocrine/paracrine signalling including the roles of thyroid hormone, glucocorticoids and vitamin D. His group also investigates the cellular immunity (especially T-cell) between the fetoplacental unit and the mother and the control of immunomodulation in human pregnancy. His translational work has focused upon diagnostic accuracy of testing in pregnancy and the evaluation of fetal therapy in singleton and complex multiple pregnancy.

Professor Kilby supervises both clinical and non-clinical doctoral researcher projects.

1995 …2023

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Katie Morris

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Arri Coomarasamy

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Martin Hewison

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Jennifer Tamblyn

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Paul Moss

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Shakila Thangaratinam

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Rima Smith

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Jon Deeks

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Karla Hemming

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Karen Shaw

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Carole Cummins

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Victoria Morton

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Richard Lilford

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Graham Anderson

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Hongbo Qi

  • Chongqing Medical University

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Philip N Baker

  • University of Leicester

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Richard Saffery

  • University of Melbourne

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Denise K Williams

  • Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust
  • Birmingham Women's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
  • Newcastle University
  • University of Cambridge

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Matthew E Hurles

  • Wellcome Sanger Institute

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Gerald Mason

  • Leeds Teaching Hosp
  • Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

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Ann M Tonks

  • Public Health England

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Elizabeth Quinlan-Jones

  • Birmingham Women's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

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Ruth Y Eberhardt

  • Wellcome Trust Sanger Inst

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Fionnuala Mone

  • Birmingham Children’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

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Ruth Bender Atik

  • Miscarriage Association

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Michael Bradburn

  • University of Sheffield

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Liesbeth Lewi

  • Leuven Cancer Institute
  • KU Leuven

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Rachel Small

  • Birmingham Heartlands Hospital

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Siobhan Quenby

  • University of Warwick

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Cara Mooney

  • University of Sheffield

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Jenny Lord

  • Wellcome Trust Sanger Inst

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Jackie Ross

  • King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

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Asma Khalil

  • Imperial College London
  • St George's Healthcare NHS Trust

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Edmond Edi-Osagie

  • Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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Kalsang Bhatia

  • Burnley General Hospital

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Eamonn R Maher

  • University of Cambridge

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Natalie Nunes

  • West Middlesex University Hospital

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Richard D. Riley

  • Keele University

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Davor Jurkovic

  • Imperial College London
  • University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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Cindy L Cooper

  • University of Sheffield

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Yakoub Khalaf

  • Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

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Deborah Jarvis

  • University of Sheffield

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Gabriele Rinck

  • Wellcome Trust Sanger Inst

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Allan Wailoo

  • University of Sheffield

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Feroza Dawood

  • University of Liverpool
  • Cairo University
  • Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University

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Philip Cox

  • Birmingham Women's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

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Ruth Graham

  • Newcastle University

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Georgina K Hall

  • Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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Rebecca Keelagher

  • Birmingham Women's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

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P Young

  • Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust

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Lan Wang

  • Chongqing Medical University

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Li Lin

  • The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University

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Ying Cheong

  • University of Southampton

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Ben Mol

  • Monash Medical Centre
  • Monash University
  • University of Amsterdam
  • University of Adelaide

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Michael J Campbell

  • University of Sheffield

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Basky Thilaganathan

  • St George's Healthcare NHS Trust

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Philipp Klaritsch

  • Medical University of Graz

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Bassel H Al Wattar

  • Queen Mary, University of London
  • University of Warwick

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Jodie M Dodd

  • Women’s and Children’s Hospital
  • University of Adelaide

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Lara Cresswell

  • University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust

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Shuai Huang

  • Shanghai Jiao Tong University

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Graeme MacLennan

  • University of Aberdeen

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J Norman

  • University of Liverpool

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Helen J Williams

  • Birmingham Children’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

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Richard H Scott

  • Imperial College London

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Tengfei Shan

  • Beijing Institute of Technology

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Matthew Hall

  • University of Birmingham

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Susan P Walker

  • University of Melbourne

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Jackie A Ross

  • King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

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J D Glazier

  • University of Glasgow

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Jenny E V Morton

  • Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust

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Kate E Chandler

  • Manchester Centre for Genomic Medicine, St Mary's Hospital, Manchester, M13 9WL

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Rene Chun

  • University of California
  • UCLA Orthoped Hosp
  • Dept of Othopaedic Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA

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Xing Wang

  • University of Durham

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Sunayna K Best

  • Imperial College London

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Xiu Qiu

  • Guangzhou Women and Children's Medical Center

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Pradeep C Vasudevan

  • University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust

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L. Sun

  • University of Melbourne
  • Wuhan University
  • University of Cincinnati

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Ashlee Rigby

  • Flinders Medical Centre

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M Bradburn

  • University of Sheffield

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Stephen Robson

  • Newcastle University

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Andrea Rossi

  • INAF Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica, Bologna

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Clifton Oneill Brock

  • University of Texas

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Kypros Nicolaides

  • King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
  • Imperial College London

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Chao Tong

  • Beihang University

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  • Zhejiang University

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  • Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham

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  • Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
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Claire Miller

  • Birmingham Children’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

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David S Cooper

  • University of Cincinnati

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Charlotte Bell

  • Birmingham Women's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

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  • UEA, Norwich Research Park

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Lucy Jenkins

  • Imperial College London

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Ian Mills

  • Birmingham Women's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
  • Torrington Dental Practice

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Alexander Heazell

  • University of Manchester

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Martyn Underwood

  • Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust

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BCP Chan

  • University of California

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EL Hobbs

  • Cranfield University

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