2022

The CRH’s Francesca Hearn-Yeates (Horne lab) and Grace Forsyth (Mitchell lab) are students on the Integrated Studies in Medical Sciences with Engagement PhD programme and their end of year presentations took place on 13.12.22

The CRH’s Dr Varsha Jain features in this fascinating episode of The Vagina Museum’s podcast, discussing all things periods, heavy menstrual bleeding, menstrual health and space gynaecology.

The CRH’s Professor James Boardman is recognized for his efforts and achievement as an outstanding educator (02.12.22)

​​​​​​​The EXPPECT clinical and research teams were delighted to win a 2022 Scottish Healthcare Award for their work on endometriosis and pelvic pain in the ‘Developments in Female Health’ category. 

Dr Jackie Maybin, Senior Research Fellow and Honorary Consultant Gynaecologist at MRC Centre for Reproductive Health, appears in a new NHS Inform video to raise awareness of periods, problem periods, and menstrual health.

Two associate researchers at MRC CRH, Professor Evelyn Telfer and Dr Roseanne Rosario, visited Castlebrae Community High School on 16.11.22 to facilitate a Women in STEM session with a group of female students.

There is no evidence of higher risk of miscarriage or ectopic pregnancy following vaccination against Covid-19 or infection with the disease, according to a new study.

The CRH’s Dr Jackie Maybin collaborated with Scottish athlete Eilish McColgan to create this valuable resource. Please have a read and share it with your networks.

Usher Institute Professor (and CRH Associate) Sarah Stock is encouraging pregnant women to take up the offer of the Covid-19 and flu vaccines before winter sets in.

​​​​​​​CRH Associate Professor Sarah Stock provided expert commentary within this Herald article, from October 2022.

Professor Andrew Horne contributed expert commentary to this impactful article in The Times, published 13.10.22

CRH researchers visited Beeslack High School as part of the October STEMFEST Festival running across schools in Midlothian.

Research into male contraception is led by the CRH’s Professor Anderson and Dr Reynolds-Wright.

The MRC CRH’s Co-Director Professor Hilary Critchley and CRH Associates Sarah Stock and Rebecca Reynolds all feature in this brilliant Physiological Reviews podcast episode which has a focus on pregnancy and Covid-19.

Ginnie Clark (Comms and Public Engagement Manager), Rocio Martinez Aguilar (Maybin lab), Francesca Hearn-Yeates (Horne lab) and Grace Forsyth (Mitchell lab) visited Liberton High School on Tuesday 27 September to offer students the chance to take part in our reproductive health themed scientific workshop.

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.