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Richard Lea is a Professor of Reproductive Biology at the School of Veterinary Medicine and Science at the University of Nottingham. Professor Lea received his PhD from Sheffield Hallam University (1988) in Immunological Aspects of Implantation in the Horse after which he pursued his early post-doctoral studies at McMaster University, Canada on immunological mechanisms that underlie the traumatic problem of recurrent first trimester pregnancy loss in the human. Further postdoctoral placements at the University of Edinburgh, UK enabled Professor Lea to extend his work into endocrine and immune influences on human uterine cells after which he took up a tenured post at the Rowett Research Institute, Aberdeen, UK where he focussed on nutritional influences on intra-uterine ‘immuno-endocrine’ mechanisms essential for fetal development using both rodent and sheep models.
For the past two decades, Professor Lea’s research has focussed on the vexing and topical issue of endocrine disrupting chemicals on mammalian fertility and reproductive well-being. Ovine experimental models have been developed in which pregnant ewes have been exposed to mixtures of chemicals representative of ‘real-life’ human exposure. This was achieved by grazing pregnant ewes on pastures fertilised with processed human-sewage sludge based fertiliser (biosolids) which is common global agricultural practice. Striking developmental effects have been observed in both the female and male fetuses of these ewes and intriguingly, fetuses transiently exposed for a period of 80 days during early mid or late gestation exhibited exhibit marked effects over and above those observed in continuously exposed fetuses. Professor Lea’s laboratory is developing this work through an NIEHS funded programme on the transgenerational consequences of in utero exposure (via the pregnant ewe) on fertility and metabolic health in F1, F2 and F3 offspring. This collaborative programme with the Universities of Glasgow, UK and Michigan, USA is already yielding fascinating data of relevance to human exposures. Professor Lea also leads a research programme on the dog as a sentinel (index species) of daily human exposure to environmental chemicals in the household. His recent publications in this area have generated considerable international attention on this unique work also highly applicable to the understanding of chemical effects on human reproductive health.
Professor Lea is the Chair of the Society for Reproduction and Fertility (SRF) and leads a pro-active council in the promotion of reproductive health research (human and animal) and in providing opportunities for reproductive scientists to attend international meetings and to develop new and novel research ideas through a variety of SRF funding initiatives. Professor Lea's mission is to heighten public awareness and impress upon government the urgent need for worldwide strategies to improve and protect global reproductive health.
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JOURNAL OF NEUROENDOCRINOLOGYno. 1 (2024)
Richard G. Lea,Rebecca Sumner, Morne Van der Mescht, Deborah Adi,David Gardner,Kevin Sinclair,Gary England
JOURNAL OF REPRODUCTIVE IMMUNOLOGY (2023)
Richard G Lea,Rebecca Sumner, Morne Van der Mescht, Deborah Adi,David Gardner,Kevin Sinclair,Gary England
Journal of Reproductive Immunology (2023): 103563
David Morton,Kate Allen, Beth Jinks, Mike Herrtage,Michael Clark,Richard Lea,Eddie Clutton,Kiterie Faller, Stephen Greenhalgh,Peter Fordyce,Sarah Wolfensohn, Chris Stevens, Pamela Gillick, Nicola Menzies-Gow, David Killick, Joanna Morris, David Martin, Luisa De Risio, Jo Murrell
Science of the total environment (2023): 165674-165674
S. V. Thangaraj,M. Kachman, K. M. Halloran,K. D. Sinclair,R. Lea,M. Bellingham,N. P. Evans,V. Padmanabhan
ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY AND PHARMACOLOGY (2023)
Richard G Lea,Rebecca Sumner, Morne Van der Mescht, Deborah Adi,David Gardner,Kevin Sinclair,Gary England
Journal of Reproductive Immunology (2023)
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