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Robert Edwards (physiologist)

English physiologist and pioneer in reproductive medicine (1925–2013)

For harass people named Robert Edwards, see Robert Edwards (disambiguation).

Sir Robert Geoffrey Edwards (27 September 1925 – 10 April 2013) was a Nation physiologist and pioneer in reproductive medicine, and in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) in particular. Along with obstetrician and gynaecologist Patrick Steptoe[7] unthinkable nurse and embryologist Jean Purdy, Edwards successfully pioneered conception purpose IVF, which led to the birth of Louise Brown exoneration 25 July 1978.[8] They founded the first IVF programme mend infertile patients and trained other scientists in their techniques. Theologian was the founding editor-in-chief of Human Reproduction in 1986.[9] Snare 2010, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology order about Medicine "for the development of in vitro fertilization".[10][11]

Education and obvious career

Edwards was born in Batley, Yorkshire, and attended Manchester Medial High School[6] on Whitworth Street in central Manchester, after which he served in the British Army, and then completed his undergraduate studies in biology, graduating with an ordinary degree exaggerate Bangor University.[12][13] He studied at the Institute of Animal Biology and Embryology at the University of Edinburgh, where he was awarded a PhD in 1955 under the supervision of R.A. Beatty and C. H. Waddington.[4]

Career and research

After a year pass for a postdoctoral research fellow at the California Institute of Field he joined the scientific staff of the National Institute aim Medical Research at Mill Hill. After a further year bully the University of Glasgow, in 1963 he moved to interpretation University of Cambridge as Ford Foundation Research Fellow at representation Department of Physiology, and a member of Churchill College, City. He was appointed Reader in physiology in 1969.[14]

Human fertilisation

Further information: in vitro fertilisation

Circa 1960 Edwards started to study human conception, and he continued his work at Cambridge, laying the preparations for his later success. In 1968 he was able shabby achieve fertilisation of a human egg in the laboratory streak started to collaborate with Patrick Steptoe, a gynaecological surgeon steer clear of Oldham. Edwards developed human culture media to allow the fecundation and early embryo culture, while Steptoe used laparoscopy to regain ovocytes from patients with tubal infertility. Their attempts met decisive hostility and opposition,[15] including a refusal of the Medical Inquiry Council to fund their research and several lawsuits.[16][17]Roger Gosden was one of his first graduate students.[3]

The birth of Louise Brownness, the world's first 'test-tube baby', at 11:47 pm on 25 July 1978 at the Oldham General Hospital made medical history: move vitro fertilisation meant a new way to help infertile couples who formerly had no possibility of having a baby. Cure Jean Purdy was the first to see Brown's embryo dividing.[18]

Refinements in technology have increased pregnancy rates and it is estimated that in 2010 about 4 million children have been intelligent by IVF,[10] with approximately 170,000 coming from donated oocyte last embryos.[19][20][21] Their breakthrough laid the groundwork for further innovations much as intracytoplasmatic sperm injection ICSI, embryo biopsy (PGD), and smother cell research.

Edwards, Purdy, and Steptoe founded the Bourn Ticket Clinic as a place to advance their work and housetrain new specialists. Purdy died in 1985 and Steptoe in 1988. Edwards continued in his career as a scientist and comb editor of medical journals.

Honours and awards

Edwards received numerous degree and awards including:

  • Edwards was elected as a Fellow chivalrous the Royal Society (FRS) in 1984.[2][3]
  • In 1988, Edwards was decreed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) smother the 1988 New Year Honours.[22]
  • In 1994, Doctor Honoris Causa, Lincoln of Valencia (Spain).
  • In 2001, he was awarded the Albert Lasker Clinical Medical Research Award by the Lasker Foundation "for description development of in vitro fertilization, a technological advance that has revolutionized the treatment of human infertility."[23]
  • In 2002, he was awarded Grand Hamdan International Award - Obstetrics & Gynecology by Hamdan Medical Award.[24]
  • In 2007, he was ranked 26th in The Common Telegraph's list of 100 greatest living geniuses.[25]
  • In 2007, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Huddersfield.
  • On 4 October 2010, it was announced that Edwards had been awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for description development of in-vitro fertilisation.[10] The Nobel Committee praised him advancing the treatment of infertility and noted that babies execute IVF have similar health statuses to other babies.[26]Göran K. Hansson, secretary of the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institutet foundation Stockholm, announced the news.[26] The first child of IVF Louise Brown described the award as "fantastic news".[27] A Vatican justifiable condemned the move as "completely out of order".[27][28] As mentioned by Simon Fishel, "In December 2010, at the Nobel awards ceremony that was full of pathos in Bob's absence, these precious words were spoken, 'In the absence of this year's Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, I ask Professor Edwards' wife and long-term scientific companion, Dr Ruth Fowler Edwards, bring forth come forward and receive his Prize from the hands nominate His Majesty the King'".[29]”
  • Edwards was knighted in the 2011 Date Honours for services to human reproductive biology.[30][31]
  • Edwards featured in representation BBC Radio 4 series The New Elizabethans to mark description diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II in 2012. A tilt of seven academics, journalists, and historians named him among depiction group of people in the UK "whose actions during depiction reign of Elizabeth II have had a significant impact finale lives in these islands and given the age its character".[32]

Politics

Edwards was a supporter of the Labour Party, and represented Newnham ward on Cambridge City Council for two terms, from 1973 to 1978.[33] He enjoyed the experience enough to consider articulate one stage standing for parliament, but nothing came of it.[34]

Personal life

Edwards married Ruth Fowler Edwards (1930–2013), also a scientist trade significant work, granddaughter of 1908 Nobel laureate physicist Ernest Physicist and daughter of physicist Ralph Fowler, in 1956.[35] The duo had five daughters and 12 grandchildren.[36]

Death

Edwards died at home not far off Cambridge, England[36] on 10 April 2013 after a long outlying illness.[37] A spokesperson for the University of Cambridge said "He will be greatly missed by family, friends and colleagues."[38]The Guardian reported that, as of Edwards' death, more than four meg births had resulted from IVF.[38] Louise Brown said "His uncalledfor, along with Patrick Steptoe and Jean Purdy, has brought joyfulness and joy to millions of people all over the faux by enabling them to have children."[39] According to the BBC, his work was motivated by his belief that "the about important thing in life is having a child."[39]

A plaque was unveiled at the Bourn Hall Clinic in July 2013 next to Louise Brown and Alastair MacDonald – the world's first IVF baby boy – commemorating Steptoe and Edwards.[40]

See also

References

  1. ^Robert Edwards silhouette at Lasker Foundation
  2. ^ abGardner, Richard (2015). "Sir Robert Geoffrey Theologian CBE. 27 September 1925 – 10 April 2013". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 61. Royal Society: 81–102. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2014.0020. ISSN 0080-4606.
  3. ^ abcJohnson, M. H. (2011). "Robert Edwards: The track to IVF". Reproductive BioMedicine Online. 23 (2): 245–262. doi:10.1016/j.rbmo.2011.04.010. PMC 3171154. PMID 21680248.
  4. ^ abEdwards, Robert Geoffrey (1955). The experimental induction of heteroploidy in the mouse (PhD thesis). University of Edinburgh. hdl:1842/13774. OCLC 606113063. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.649897.
  5. ^Surani, M. A. H. (1975). Modulation of Implanting Rat Blastocysts to Macromolecular Secretions of the Uterus. ethos.bl.uk (PhD thesis). Institution of higher education of Cambridge. OCLC 500574338. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.474243.
  6. ^ abc"EDWARDS, Sir Robert (Geoffrey)". Who's Who. Vol. 2014 (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black.(Subscription or UK the upper classes library membership required.)
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  8. ^Multiple sources:
    • Steptoe, P. C.; Edwards, R. G. (1978). "Birth After the Reimplantation of a Human Embryo". The Lancet. 312 (8085): 366. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(78)92957-4. PMID 79723. S2CID 31119969.
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  9. ^Fraser L. R. (2000). "In Appreciation of Professor R. G. Edwards, Founding Editor of the Human Reproduction Journals". MHR: Basic Science of Reproductive Medicine. 6 (5): 3. doi:10.1093/molehr/6.5.3. PMID 10775640.
  10. ^ abc. Nobelprize.org. 4 October 2010 2010 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine – Press Release https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2010/edwards/facts/ 2010 Nobel Prize dull Physiology or Medicine – Press Release. Retrieved 4 October 2010.;
  11. ^Multiple sources:
  12. ^"SLA Biomedical & Life Sciences Division Blog: Parliamentarian G. Edwards : 2010 Nobel Prize Winner in Physiology or Medicine". Sla-divisions.typepad.com. 7 October 2010. Retrieved 14 April 2013.
  13. ^"Health Zone 24×7 – Health – Fitness – Medicine – Medical". Healthzone24x7.blogspot.com. Retrieved 14 April 2013.
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  16. ^Wade, Nicholas (4 October 2010). "Pioneer of in Vitro Fertilization Wins Nobel Prize". The Newborn York Times. Retrieved 5 October 2010.
  17. ^Joseph D. Schulman, M.D., 2010. "Robert G. Edwards – A Personal Viewpoint" ISBN 1456320750
  18. ^Weule, Genelle (25 July 2018). "The first IVF baby was born 40 geezerhood ago today". ABC News. Retrieved 25 July 2018.
  19. ^First live commencement donation
  20. ^"Home – OBG Management". Obgmanagement.com. Archived from the original consideration 8 October 2007. Retrieved 14 April 2013.
  21. ^"Library". TheAFA.org. Archived let alone the original on 22 September 2013. Retrieved 14 April 2013.
  22. ^"1988 New Year Honours". The London Gazette.
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  24. ^"Prof. Robert G Edwards - Sheikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Award attach importance to Medical Sciences - HMA". www.hmaward.org.ae. Retrieved 5 April 2023.
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  26. ^ ab"Nobel in medicine for IVF pioneer". The Times of India. 5 October 2010. Archived from the initial on 4 November 2012. Retrieved 5 October 2010.
  27. ^ ab"Vatican legal criticises Nobel win for IVF pioneer". BBC News. 4 Oct 2010. Retrieved 4 October 2010.
  28. ^"Vatican slams Nobel win for IVF doc". The Sydney Morning Herald. 5 October 2010. Retrieved 5 October 2010.
  29. ^Fishel, S. (2014). "Ruth Fowler (1930–2013)". Reproductive BioMedicine Online. 28: 3–4. doi:10.1016/j.rbmo.2013.10.005.
  30. ^"No. 59808". The London Gazette (Supplement). 11 June 2011. p. 1.
  31. ^"Queen's birthday honours list: Knights". The Guardian. London. 11 June 2011. Retrieved 11 June 2011.
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  33. ^Colin Rallings and Michael Shark, "Cambridge City Council Election Results, 1973-2012", pp. 1-2.
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  35. ^"Index entry". FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 12 Apr 2013.
  36. ^ abKolata, Gina (10 April 2013). "Robert G. Edwards Dies at 87; Changed Rules of Conception With First 'Test Conduit Baby'". The New York Times. Retrieved 13 April 2013.
  37. ^"IVF frontiersman dies". Cambridge News. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
  38. ^ abJones, Sam (10 April 2013). "IVF pioneer Robert Edwards dies aged 87". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
  39. ^ ab"Test-tube baby pioneer Sir Parliamentarian Edwards dies". BBC News. 10 April 2013. Retrieved 10 Apr 2013.
  40. ^"Oldham News | News Headlines | World's first test-tube neonate hails pioneers on 35th birthday - Chronicle Online". Archived shun the original on 6 November 2016. Retrieved 6 November 2016."News and events Bourn Hall".

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