Women’s health research needs women in science. On International Women & Girls in Science Day, we’re proud to support outstanding researchers working to understand and prevent premature birth. @vikilovesfacs.bsky.social #WomenInScience #WomensHealth #PrematureBirth #IDWGS

Every minute counts when a baby arrives too soon. In Layla’s story, we see the courage of families facing the unknown and the urgent need for answers through research. Read her journey and learn how you can support Borne’s work to change the future of premature birth - https://ow.ly/J1B850Y7FM0

£250,000 Partnership Grant Borne x Action Medical Research are funding collaborative research to help prevent premature birth. Apply by 17 February 2026. For researchers in maternal, fetal & neonatal health, please apply or share - www.borne.org.uk/grant/partne...

Our new website is live. Built to better showcase the research we fund and the progress being made to understand and prevent premature birth. CEO David Badcock: “This platform reflects who we are: a research-driven, collaborative, and pioneering charity.” www.borne.org.uk

Preterm birth is one of the biggest unanswered questions in pregnancy. Big BUMP is a research project using major technological advances to study, cell by cell, what triggers labour too early, with the goal of prevention, not reaction. You can learn more in the 24/25 Research Report.

Today on LBC Radio, Trustees, Patrons & Supporters of Borne shared the realities of premature birth, alongside the news that the government has quietly dropped its promise to reduce premature births in the UK. These stories are hard to hear. They are also impossible to ignore.

Our latest episode of The Borne Podcast is now live Borne Founder Professor Mark Johnson, Ambassador Laura Tobin & Patron HRH Princess Beatrice come together for a deeply important discussion about premature birth and the research being funded by Borne. Listen here > ow.ly/yXkT50XsLQB

Thank you to Borne Ambassador Laura Tobin and @Lorraine Kelly for inviting Professor Mark Johnson on the show this morning to discuss World Prematurity Day and Every Week Counts. 💜 You can watch the interview on catch-up. 💜✨ #borne #worldprematurityday #lorraineshow

Every week counts 💜 Together with HRH Princess Beatrice, we’re raising awareness of premature birth this World Prematurity Day.

Every story matters 💜 Behind every statistic is a parent, a baby, a family with a story that deserves to be heard. Sharing their experiences helps others to feel less alone, inspire understanding and drive real change. For #WorldPrematurityDay we want to share as many stories as we can.

We’re delighted to welcome two brilliant new additions to the Borne team. Their experience, passion and fresh perspective will help us take even greater strides in our mission to fund research to advance our knowledge of pregnancy and childbirth, and improve the lives of mothers and babies.

This week as part of #BirthTraumaAwarenessWeek, we stand with everyone to raise awareness for those who have been impacted by birth trauma. Your stories matter. And we are listening and working for change 🩵🔬

🤰🏽 Emerging evidence suggests that decidual #macrophages are attractive targets in #PretermLabour 👩🏻‍🔬 But understanding how macrophage subsets differ in their origin, function and localisation will help us to do this better! 📃 Our forum on this is out now! #ReprodSky #ObGynSky #ImmunoSky #MedSky

We’re proud that Borne and the Borne Collaborative were recognised in Parliament as a leading force in the fight to prevent premature birth. But as Baroness Bertin made clear, more must be done through research, early intervention, and national coordination.

We’re pleased to see new bereavement leave measures introduced for pre-24 week baby loss, a crucial step towards better support for parents. #prematurebirth #babyloss #babylossawareness

In this special run, we hear from actors, comedians, researchers, and families as they share honest stories, lived experiences, and expert insights on preterm birth – from the UK to India. open.spotify.com/show/52y2jnj...

The Borne Podcast is back – with a brand new mini-series of 10-minute bitesize episodes launching this July -https://open.spotify.com/show/52y2jnjIoVRDFsXOCd42gS?si=dc52348e7ce34fc3

We’re proud to support this extraordinary group and excited for what’s ahead. Huge thanks to Dr Ram Menon, Prof Sam Messiano, Prof Elizabeth Bonney, and everyone who made this meeting so powerful. 🩵🔬 #PremtureBirth #Womenshealth #Pregnancy #MedicalResearch #Savingbabieslives

PREBIC are now preparing proposals for Borne to fund vital projects focused on harmonising global datasets, examining community-based insights, and driving forward clinical and translational research on a global scale.

Our CEO, David Badcock, shared our mission to fund the best ideas, backed by the best science + reinforced collaboration is key to unlocking real solutions. We explored the regional variances shaped by factors like environment, socioeconomics, culture + why a one-size-fits-all approach won’t work.

What an inspiring 3 days in Prague for the PREBIC Global Meeting 2025, where the world’s leading scientists and researchers gathered to tackle one of the greatest global health challenges: Premature Birth.

Delegates have now split into work groups to develop new research ideas that can be pitched to Borne for possible funding. New ideas generated in real time, that could change the scope of what we know about premature birth. We’ll hear about these ideas during the closing session of day 2.

In the afternoon, Borne Founder Prof Mark Johnson and Borne CEO David Badcock congratulated the PREBIC group on an outstanding meeting, and set out the long term vision for Borne, emphasising the synergy with the aims of PREBIC.

In the following session, researchers provide further updates on their work, including identifying novel inhibitors for membrane inflammation, and a mouse model to study the long-term cardiovascular outcomes in offspring after prenatal inflammation.

We’ve heard reflections on preterm birth in Africa from Prof Dully Anumba, and insights, challenges and learnings from preconception and pregnancy studies in South Africa from Prof Steve Lye.

PREBIC Founder Prof Ram Menon opens day two by congratulating members on 20 years of collaboration and commends the delegation, new and old, for their continued dedication and commitment to research into preterm birth.

Breaking into workshops, the group looked at identifying research priorities; what could we do to have impact; what do we need to develop a preterm birth prevention framework which will positively impact local population; what is needed to sensitise our communities and make it ‘research ready’.

We have also heard recent developments on Pregnolia (a medical device that allows care providers to measure the stiffness of the cervix for a more complete characterisation of cervical status.

In addition we heard updates from Borne funded studies INSIGHT-2 (a mechanistic study into pregnancy complications and their impact on maternal and child health, and PROMPT (a novel approach to point-of-care testing for preterm birth.

The afternoon session at PREBIC featured presentations on ‘Research in Progress’ - important ongoing studies including the understanding of clinical phenotypes from a preterm birth debrief clinic, and the MOBILEair feasibility study, an intervention to lower exposure to air pollution in pregnancy.

“What would you do with $20M to prevent preterm birth?” That’s the challenge posed by PREBIC Chair Prof Sam Messiano. The answer? Cross-disciplinary collaboration, local data, midwife training & community dialogue. The goal: real change for babies born too soon, everywhere. #prebic #pretermbirth

The PREBIC meeting is underway in Prague. Researchers & clinicians from across 5 continents are sharing insights on the global crisis of preterm birth. Today’s focus: regional challenges, research in progress, and the urgent need for tailored strategies, because one size doesn’t fit all. #PREBIC

We're proud to be supporting the PREBIC Global Meeting in Prague this weekend, a space where researchers from around the world come together to share, collaborate, and push forward the science behind preterm birth. More updates coming soon from the event, stay tuned! 🌍 #PREBIC #PrematureBirth

Now, we urge the government to follow suit with real investment, a national taskforce, and a bold strategy to tackle this crisis.

Lord Winston echoed Borne's belief that it’s time for smarter investment in research that drives real outcomes for women and babies. Baroness Bertin has called for a national taskforce to oversee preterm birth research and care, something we at Borne have long advocated for.

Borne welcomes today's debate at the House of Lords on the Report from the Preterm Birth Committee Preterm birth: 'reducing risks and improving lives'

"You're not the reason this happened" In our latest episode of #TheBornePodcast, Zalena shares the story of her son Sam, born at 24 weeks, and the emotional journey through NICU and beyond. A powerful listen for #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek. 🎧 🔗 bit.ly/borne-podcast #Prematurebirth #charitypodcast

On #InternationalNursesDay, we honour the strength, and compassion of Neonatal Nurses everywhere. In the most critical moments, you guide families through their first, often most challenging, steps. Thank you for the care, courage, and unwavering dedication you show every single day. 🩵

One of our research projects, jointly funded with @actionmedres.bsky.social has been featured by the BBC! It explores the link between fetal abnormalities and preterm birth, and could help change outcomes for thousands of families. 🔗 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Borne proudly supports the WHO's World Health Day 2025 campaign, Healthy Beginnings, Hopeful Futures. We're committed to ending preventable premature birth and ensuring every baby has the best start in life. #WorldHealthDay #MaternalHealth #NewbornHealth #BorneResearch

To finish the day, Prof Lauren Richardson and Prof Suhas Kallapur explain the latest preterm birth research - IL1 inhibition therapy to prevent preterm labour in the non-human primate model

Alice Buchan and Nish Shah from Imperial update on the incredible Borne funded PROMPT clinical trial at ChelWest - results and what’s next! #BorneCollaborative

Prof Doug Kwan from Harvard looks at vaginal microbiome and inflammation targets to reduce preterm birth #BorneCollabotative

Prof Steve Charnock Jones explores single cell/nuclear sequencing in reproductive tissues and asks is it hope or hype? The answer: it’s both. It’s mind blowing technology - astonishingly good. But needs to be done in the right way

Prof Steve Lye discusses Imaging Mass Cytrometry and other approaches to examine preterm birth most effectively #BorneCollaborative

Prof Rachel Tribe updates on BUMP progress. “We’ve now got a snapshot of what happens in labour. Now we can use the same approach in preterm settings, and that’s what we are doing with Big BUMP”

Next Borne Founder Prof Mark Johnson explains Borne’s global research plans, and the importance of a truly collaborative approach to achieve this

Borne Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board Professor Lucilla Poston opens the Borne Collaborative mtg, welcoming over 40 delegates to the day ahead

Today we are delighted to host the latest Borne Collaborative meeting at the Society for Reproductive Investigation (SRI) in Charlotte, USA! We're bringing together leading scientists & experts to drive forward preterm birth research. Stay tuned for real-time updates! #BorneCollaborative

The latest ONS data confirms preterm birth rates in the UK are rising, not slowing down. We need more research to find answers, improve treatments & save lives. Science is the key to change. 💙 #BritishScienceWeek #BorneResearch