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Susan Wray

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Susan C. Wray is professor of cellular and molecular physiology at the University of Liverpool. She also serves as the President of the International Union of Physiological Sciences (IUPS) and is president of the Federation of European Physiological Societies (FEPS). She was the founding editor-in-chief of Physiological Reports. and is the first editor-in-chief of Current Research in Physiology. She serves as director of the centre of better births in Liverpool Women's Hospital which was opened in 2013 with funding of £2.5 million with the objective of basic scientists working together with clinicians on problems during pregnancy. Along with Zarko Alfirevic, she leads the Harris wellbeing preterm birth centre. Wray is the director of the University of Liverpool Athena SWAN and team leader for the institute of translational medicine. Her primary research interests are in smooth muscle physiology, reproductive medicine and cell signalling.