Robert G. Edwards Nobel  laureate

 All fertility specialists around the worls are proud for their colleague Professor Robert G. Edwards whose lifelong efforts on in vitro  fertilization were dutifully rewarded with the Nobel Prize of Medicine 2010.

 Dr. Edwards, a Reproductive Biologists at Cambridge University, together with the  late Obstetrician – Gynaecologist Patrick  Steptoe, through  hard work, perseverance and enthusiasm for their method, pioneered  by succeeding in the birth of the first IVF baby on July 25, 1978 in Oldham General Hospital, giving hope to millions of women around the world.

Dr. Edwards is one of the founding members and President of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE), in 1986 and for 15 years he was editor of the renown medical journal ‘Human Reproduction’.

According to the latest estimate, 1.5 million of IVF attempts are performed each year, worldwide and 300.000 babies are born. Totally, from 1978, with the birth of Louise Brown, to 2006, 4.3 million babies have been born   (22.1%) worldwide.