Robert Edwards, a founder of ESHRE, honoured as Nobel laureate

Brussels, 4th October 2010 -- ESHRE, the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology, warmly and proudly welcomes today's announcement that the Cambridge reproductive biologist Robert Edwards has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine. Bob was a founder member of ESHRE and became the Society's first chairman in 1985. The following year, under his drive and direction, ESHRE published the first issue of its journal, Human Reproduction, with Bob as editor, a role he was to continue for the next 15 years. Working with the gynaecologist Patrick Steptoe, Bob had pioneered the birth