Professor and Canada Research Chair in Reproduction, Development and Sexual Function, Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, Queen's University.

Anne Croy, a world-leader in reproduction, has made seminal contributions to medical science with her description of uterine Natural Killer (uNK) cells, recruited to the uterus in early pregnancy. Croy has shown the key angiogenic actions of uNK on vessels supplying the placenta and deduced major pathways by which this is accomplished. Most complications of human pregnancy (e.g. hypertension/pre-eclampsia) are linked with incomplete remodelling of vessels called spiral arteries - a process initiated by the uNK cell. Using mice and pigs, Croy has applied state-of-the-art histological and physiological techniques to successfully model primary outcomes of human pregnancies with impaired vessel remodelling.