She is completing her doctorate at our Doctoral School and is in the course of specialization at the 1st Chair and Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology of the Medical University of Warsaw. Agata Majewska joined the research group at King's College London in early March as part of a six-month internship. The team is made up of eleven researchers who focus on metabolic diseases in pregnancy, including diabetes, dysplipidemia, and liver disease, including intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy. The research group is led by Professor Catherine Williamson, who also heads the Department of Women and Children's Health at King's College.
Agata Majewska is pursuing three projects.
- Two of them relate to intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy. I analyze in them the factors that influence the complications of this disease, mainly the risk of intrauterine fetal demise. We plan to present the results of one of these projects in July 2022 - says the grantee. The third project Majewska is involved in is one of the UK Obstetric Surveillance System (UKOSS) studies, a national registration system designed to study rare diseases in pregnancy. - My part of the project deals with liver disease, one consequence of which is reduced fertility, while pregnancy itself is associated with many complications for both mother and fetus. I cannot talk too much about it yet before the publication, but I hope that the results of our scientific work will allow to improve perinatal care in patients diagnosed with this disease - concludes Agata Majewska.