Rachel Tribe

Rachel Tribe is a British academic who is the Professor of Maternal and Perinatal Sciences at King's College London working on translational research to improve the outcome of pregnancy.

Education Rachel Marie Tribe studied for her BSc degree at University of Sheffield in Special Dual Honours Physiology and Zoology. She was subsequently awarded a PhD from the University of London for research into dietary salt intake, sodium transport, and bronchial reactivity while working at St. Thomas's Hospital.

Career Tribe undertook post-doctoral research at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, USA into the regulation of intracellular calcium levels within smooth muscle. The way in which the microbiome of the gut develops in infants after birth, and whether this can be related to health is another area. Her research group collaborates with others in the UK as well as with researchers in countries such as the USA, Australia, Kenya, Mozambique and India.

Tribe has also been part of several collaborations that are trying to develop apps that can be used by pregnant women or doctors to help decide if there is a risk of a preterm birth. One of these is EQUIPTT and another is QUiPP.

Awards In 2016 Tribe was awarded the G L Brown Prize Lecture by the Physiological Society. She is now a Trustee and Director of the Physiological Society, and a member of its Council, Chair of the Membership & Grants Committee and the Diversity/Equality Lead.

Publications Tribe is the author or co-author of over 150 scientific publications. These include: Jane Sandall, Rachel M. Tribe, Lisa Avery, Glen Mola, Gerard H. A. Visser, Caroline S. E. Homer Deena Gibbons, Niamh M. Kelly, Holly Powell Kennedy, Hussein Kidanto, Paul Taylor, Marleen Temmerman (2018) Short-term and long-term effects of caesarean section on the health of women and children. The Lancet 392 1349-1357 N. M. Orsi and R. M. Tribe (2008) Cytokine networks and the regulation of uterine function in pregnancy and parturition. Journal of Neuroendocrinology 20 462–469 Rachel M. Tribe, Mikhail L. Borin and Mordecai P. Blaustein (1994) Functionally and spatially distinct Ca2+ stores are revealed in cultured vascular smooth muscle cells Proc. Natln. Acad. Sci U.S.A. 91 5908-5912