Written by Dr.Peter Hollands.

It is now over 30 years since the first pioneering experimental embryologists, led by Bob Edwards, developed the role of a clinical embryologist. 1,2 Those early workers included people such as Roger Simons, Jacques Cohen, Carol Fehilly, Simon Fishel, John Keith, and myself, all working in the newly erected ‘portacabin’ labs and theatre at the Bourn Hall Clinic, Cambridge. These people were all academic experimental embryologists who had been trained by Bob Edwards, and many of them had a PhD (supervised by Bob) in experimental embryology from Cambridge University.

This article was published in the May 2009 issue of the IVF NEWS.Direct! journal.

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