Transitions in development: an interview with Margherita Turco

Abstract

Margherita Turco is a group leader at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI) in Basel, Switzerland, where she uses organoid technologies to investigate human placental development. We met with Margherita over Zoom to discuss her career path so far. She told us how her early interest in reproductive technologies led her to a postdoctoral position in Cambridge, UK, where she derived the first human placental and uterine organoids and established her independent research group.