2022 news

On Tuesday 6 September 2022 Professor Rod Mitchell and his PhD student Grace Forsyth visited Portobello High School to speak to a group of S5 / S6 science students.

Ginnie Clark, Rocio Martinez Aguilar (Maybin lab), Nikki Graham (Pollard lab) and Grace Forsyth (Mitchell lab) visited Castlebrae Community Campus on Thursday August 25 to facilitate our ‘Ready, Steady, Grow’ scientific workshop.

There was great excitement as CRH staff welcomed S5 students back into the labs in July for Science Insights 2022.

Giving birth to a child after having breast cancer has no detrimental effect on the woman’s prospects of surviving the illness, according to a new study led by Professor Richard Anderson at MRC Centre for Reproductive Health.

This unique programme is developing leaders of the future who can create collaborations across academia, industry, the NHS and government to drive innovation.

More than 80 per cent of UK medical certificates recording stillbirths contain errors, research reveals.

The research laboratory founded in memory of the daughter of Sarah and Gordon Brown is marking its 20th anniversary with a powerful short film celebrating its groundbreaking work. 

The CRH's Triin Ounapuu (PhD), together with imaging experts visited the Castlebrae High School to deliver the ‘Imaging Inside-Out’ public outreach activity.

Six years ago a revolutionary technique to restore fertility in women rendered infertile by cancer treatments brought the prospect of life into the darkest of times. Its success - decades in the making - is paving the way to even more breakthroughs.

The new ‘Voices and Visions’ podcast has been created by the World Endometriosis Society (WES).

Edinburgh’s position as one of the UK’s leading research universities has been reaffirmed by the results of the 2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF).

​​​​​​​The IRR Early Careers Innovators competition final took place on 10.05.22 and Dr Varsha Jain was selected as the winner (CRH Critchley and Roberts).

Many congratulations to Dr Mike Rimmer (Mitchell lab) and Aleks Tsolova (Critchley lab) who had great success at the 69th Annual Scientific Meeting of the SRI, in Denver Colorado.

Extensive awareness raising and fundraising activity took place over the month of March.

Ahead of the vote in the Commons on 30.03.22 to make a decision to approve home abortions in England (for pregnancies of 12 weeks or less) CRH’s Dr John Reynolds-Wright and Professor Sharon Cameron created an impactful editorial for the BMJ.

CRH's Professor Hilary Critchley and Dr Jackie Maybin are two members of the contraceptive-induced menstrual changes (CIMC) Task Force.

A brilliant new series has been created for BBC Sounds called 28(ish) Days Later which focuses on the menstrual cycle.

​​​​​​​MRC CRH’s Dr Jackie Maybin spoke to the Long Covid Podcast about the research she is doing at CRH into Long COVID and the menstrual cycle.

Vaccine-building workshops, a guide to the mathematics of pizza, and hands-on activities exploring good and bad bacteria are among events involving University experts at the Edinburgh Science Festival.

In her work as a gynaecologist, MRC CRH’s Dr Jackie Maybin helps people whose menstrual bleeding is so heavy it affects their daily lives.

Edinburgh Pregnancy Research Team (EPRT) is a group of health/science professionals working together in pregnancy research across the University of Edinburgh and NHS Lothian.

​​​​​​​The RCOG holds an Annual Academic Meeting each year to showcase the best of research in obstetrics and gynaecology in the UK, from basic science to clinical trials.

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Andrew Horne, Professor of Gynaecology and Reproductive Sciences in the MRC Centre for Reproductive Health, and Philippa Saunders, Chair of Reproductive Steroids in the Centre for Inflammation Research have won the Tam Dalyell prize for excellence in engaging the public with science. 

A crippling taboo still hangs over periods. Women are constantly adjusting their lives in the face of a society that remains uncomfortable with menstruation, leaving many unsupported and isolated. This has to change.

On 26 January 2022, CRH’s Dr Varsha Jain was a panelist in the popular Wellbeing of Women event called Let’s Talk Periods: Fibroids and Adenomyosis.

The European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE) publishes today its new clinical guidelines for the diagnosis, treatment and management of Endometriosis - a chronic condition that causes severe pelvic pain and reduced fertility for millions of women worldwide. 

The CRH’s Professor Richard Anderson has been awarded €345,000 by the Ferring Reproductive Medicine and Maternal Health Corporate Giving Programme.

CRH’s Professor Horne works tirelessly to improve diagnosis times and treatment options for endometriosis patients.

Dr Rodrigo Rodrigues, a member of Professor Jeffrey Pollard’s group at the Medical Research Council Centre for Reproductive Health (MRC-CRH) at the University of Edinburgh, tragically passed away from natural causes over the New Year. 

Fertility 2022 was the 15th Joint Fertility conference hosted by the Association of Reproductive and Clinical Scientists, British Fertility Society and the Society for Reproduction and Fertility.

Women who have Covid-19 towards the end of their pregnancy are vulnerable to birth-related complications.

The CRH remembers with great fondness the many attributes and achievements of our colleague Professor Fiona Denison who very sadly died on Saturday 8th January 2022.

We are very saddened at the passing of our much-loved colleague.