Dr. Brahmdeep Saini is the research program manager for Dr. Seed’s Lab. His research focuses on advancing the assessment of placental and fetal health using advanced cardiovascular MRI techniques. During his PhD, he developed and validated an MRI-based approach to quantify placental function in healthy human and sheep pregnancies by measuring oxygen transport and consumption. In his current role, he is investigating the performance of this MRI-based approach in assessing placental function in pregnancies affected by various placental hemodynamic impairments, including placental insufficiency and invasive placentation. Through MRI research his aim is to establish a basis for a non-invasive approach to measure placental function during pregnancy, thereby enhancing clinical diagnosis, decision-making, and the accuracy of fetal health monitoring. Additionally, he supports other clinical and pre-clinical research projects in the lab, which span congenital heart disease and neurodevelopment including CHILD-BRIGHT Phase 2, cardiovascular physiology in a fetal sheep model of human pregnancy, and the development of an artificial placenta in a fetal pig model.