Professor Graham Burton qualified in Medicine from the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford. He developed a long standing interest in early placental development and function through his collaborative studies with the late Donald Steven at Cambridge and he also collaborated with Eric Jauniaux at University College, London to show the importance of uterine secretions in supporting development of the human embryo during the first three months of pregnancy.
Dr Burton holds the prestigious Mary Marshall and Arthur Walton Professorship of the Physiology of Reproduction at Cambridge University and in 2007 he was appointed Inaugural Director of the Centre for Trophoblast Research in the University. He has authored or co-authored over 220 peer-reviewed publications, 30 book chapters and 3 books.