2017

Aileen Campbell, Minister for Public Health and Sport, visited Tommy’s Metabolic Antenatal Clinic on 14 December to learn more about how the clinic benefits women and their babies.

Jackie Maybin attended Westminster this week for the Royal Society Parliamentary Pairing Scheme (w/c 04.12.17).

The University of Edinburgh has received a prestigious Queen’s Anniversary Prize for its work to improve women’s health.

More than half of all expectant mothers in Scotland are overweight or obese at the start of their pregnancy.

Dr Fiona Denison, founder of Birthing Solutions Ltd, has been awarded a Wild Card Finalist Award in the Scottish Edge Wild Card 2017 Competition.

James Boardman, Professor of Neonatal Medicine, has been elected President of the Neonatal Society (09.11.17).

CRH represents at endometriosis themed public engagement event in Melbourne.

Successful meeting and public engagement event attracts national media interest.

Birth Mirror success and reaching the finals of Science Writing Award.

On 6th September NICE published its new guidance for the diagnosis and management of endometriosis.

MRC CRH’s Fiona Denison’s Birth Mirror has been shortlisted as a finalist in this year’s Converge Challenge KickStart Awards.

The Scientific Symposium on targeting inflammation to improve reproductive health across the lifecourse was held from 16 – 18 August in Edinburgh, and was a great success.

Dr Jackie Maybin, a Clinical Lecturer in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, has been paired with MP Tommy Sheppard, as part of the Royal Society Pairing Scheme 2017.

This exciting work experience programme is designed to give fifth year high school students an insight into the work and life of research scientists.

The medical graduations were held in McEwen Hall on Saturday 8 July, 2017. A special day in the sun for everyone involved!

In 1957 the FDA approved a medicine referred to as Enovid for treating menstrual issues and infertility. Three years later, this mix of the artificial hormones norethynodrel and mestranol, was authorised by doctors as a contraceptive.

The distinguished Canadian scientist, Dr Tak Mak, Director of the Advanced Medical Discovery Institute and the Campbell Family Institute for Breast Cancer Research, visited CRH on Monday 3 July to give a fascinating seminar on future anti-cancer targets.

Women who survive cancer are more than a third less likely to conceive than women in the general population, new research suggests.

The COST Action Mye-EUNITER is a network of scientists who are undertaking exploratory research into myeloid regulatory cells. The main objective is to establish technical standards for the characterisation and analysis of these cells.

The University of Edinburgh’s MRC Centre for Reproductive Health and EXPPECT Edinburgh hosted their MRC Festival event on 23 June, 2017.

Specialist antenatal clinics for severely obese mums-to-be can help cut rates of pregnancy complications, research has found. Women who received the specialist care were eight times less likely to have a stillbirth.

Research being carried out at the MRC Centre for Reproductive Health into endometriosis could lead to new drug treatments that will block the development and progression of the often debilitating condition.

The award winning research studied the role of macrophages in endometriosis associated pain and the presentation was entitled Macrophage-derived insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1): a key player in endometriosis?

Dr Jackie Maybin, a Clinical Lecturer in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, has been shortlisted for the Royal Society Pairing Scheme 2017.

Honours for the development of the Birth Mirror

An article discussing Jackie Maybin’s work appeared in New Scientist following her presentation at at the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology in Helsinki.

The MRC CRH welcomed Gordon and Sarah Brown and around 80 guests of the charity Theirworld to a gala event to celebrate the work of the Jennifer Brown Research Laboratory (JRBL), established in memory of Jennifer Brown in 2004.

Jane Norman, Deputy Director of the MRC Centre for Reproductive Health, and Director of the Tommy’s Centre of Maternal and Fetal Health.

The storage of ovarian tissue was pioneered in Edinburgh over 20 years ago, and it is wonderful to see it come to fruition.

High praise for recent paper.

Two members of the CRH team receive MRC funding.