Professor Euan Wallace

Director, The Ritchie Centre

Professor Euan Wallace is the Director of The Ritchie Centre. Previously, he was Clinical Director of MIMR’s Centre for Women’s Health Research.

Professor Wallace’s research group focuses on basic and clinical aspects of pregnancy. The team has an international reputation for its Down Syndrome screening presearch and for the investigation of inhibins and activins in pregnancy. More recently, the group has established research programs in neuroprotection in fetal growth restriction and in utero infection, and in novel therapies for preeclampsia. The group is a world leader in amnion “stem cell” biology and their potential for clinical applications.

Professor Wallace is also Director of Obstetric Services for Southern Health, overseeing a large team of obstetricians in Southern Health’s three maternity units.  He has particular clinical interests in high risk pregnancies, including recurrent miscarriage, multiple pregnancy, hypertension and fetal growth problems.

Additionally, Professor Wallace holds the Carl Wood Chair of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Monash University. As Director of the Ritchie Centre, he has brought together the neonatal physiology research groups which specialise in newborn physiology and wellbeing at MIMR from around the Monash University.

With the amalgamation of these research teams and the existing Ritchie Centre groups, Professor Wallace’s vision for The Ritchie Centre is to make it not only the largest perinatal and fetal research cluster in the world, but to increase its capacity and scope to include women’s health and stem cell sciences.

He sits on a number of State Government committees and on committees for a number of grant funding authorities, such as NHMRC. Prof Wallace has more than 170 peer-reviewed publications relating to his research.