Professor Robert Geoffrey Edwards, CBE, BSc, PhD, DSc, DSc (Hon), FRCOG (ad eundem), Hon MRCP, FRS

Date and place of Birth: Leeds, 27 September 1925

Office Address: Reproductive BioMedicine Online, Duck End Farm, Park Lane, Dry Drayton, Cambridge CB3 8DB, UK. Tel 01954 781812; Fax 01954 781816; email: rge@rbmonline.com

Home Address: Duck End Farm, Park Lane, Dry Drayton, Cambridge CB3 8DB, UK. Tel 01954 780602; Fax 01954 781171; email: edwards@duckendfarm.cambsnet.co.uk

Outside Interests

Politics, farming, conservation, rugby, cricket

Degrees Awarded

1951 BSc (Wales)

1952 Diploma in Animal Genetics, University of Edinburgh

1955 PhD Edinburgh University

1962 DSc University of Wales

1983 Honorary DSc University of Hull

1987 Honorary DSc University of York

1988 Doctor Honoris Causa, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

1991 Honorary Fellow, University College of North Wales

1992 Doctor Honoris Causa, Valencia

Doctor Honoris Causa, Mons-Hainaut University Belgium

1999 Doctor Honoris Causa, Timisoara University, Romania

2000 Laurea Honoris Causa, University of Rome

2001 ScD (Hon) University of Cambridge

2002 Lifetime Honorary Professor, Fourth Military Medical University Xi’an, China

CAREER

1936-1944 Educated in Manchester Central High School

1944-1948 Service in British Army. Foreign service in Palestine, Jordan, Egypt and Iraq

1948-1951 Undergraduate, Dept of Zoology and Agriculture, University of Bangor, Wales

1951-1955 Postgraduate, Institute of Animal Genetics, University of Edinburgh

1955-1957 Post-Doctoral ARC Fellowship in the Institute of Animal Genetics, Edinburgh University

1957-1958 Population Council Research Fellow, California, Institute of Technology, California

1958-1962 MRC Scientific Staff, National Institute for Medical Research, London

1962-1963 Research Fellow in the Department of Biochemistry, Glasgow University

1963-1969 Ford Foundation Research Fellow, University of Cambridge

1965 Visiting Research Fellow, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore

1966 Visiting Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

1969-1985 Ford Foundation Reader in Physiology, University of Cambridge

1969-1991 Editor, Research in Reproduction, International Planned Parenthood Federation, London

1973-1976 Elected Councillor, Cambridge City Council, Chairman of Finance Panel

1974 Appointed Senior Member of Churchill College, Cambridge

1976 Re-elected Council, Cambridge City Council

1979-1982 Senior Research Fellow, Churchill College, University of Cambridge

1980-1990 Joint Founder and Scientific Director, Bourn Hall Clinic, Cambridge

1984-1988 Visiting Professor at the Vrije Universiteit, Brussel, Belgium

1985-1989 Professor of Human Reproduction, University of Cambridge

1986-1989 Professorial Fellow, Churchill College, Cambridge

1986-2000 Founder Editor Human Reproduction

1988-1990 Reappointed Visiting Professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

1989-present Visiting Professor to the University of London

1989-1992 Extraordinary Fellow, Churchill College, Cambridge

1989 Emeritus Professor, University of Cambridge

1991-1994 Chairman, Committee of Reproductive Physiology International Union of Physiological Sciences

1993-present Member of Academia Europea

1992-present Pensioner Fellow, Churchill College Cambridge

1994-2000 Editor, Human Reproduction Update

1995-2000 Editor, Molecular Human Reproduction

Current Activities

2000 – present Chief Editor, Reproductive BioMedicine Online

Honours Granted

1970 Medal of American Fertility Society

1971 Darwin Medal, Institute of Biology, UK

1973 Adair Award, American Gynecological Society

1980 Woodhull Award and Discourse, Royal Institution, London

Serono Prize, American Fertility Society

1982 Axel Munthe Award, Capri

1983 Honorary Member of the French Society for Infertility

1984 Fellow of the Royal Society, London

1985 Appointed Fellow ad eundem, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (FRCOG)

Spanish Fertility Society Gold Medal

Life Fellow of the Australian Fertility Society

Honorary Citizen of Bordeaux, France

1986 Honorary Member of the Royal College of Physicians (Hon MRCP)

1987 Gold Medal, City of Toulouse, France

1988 CBE in the New Year’s Honours, Buckingham Palace

1988-90 President, Ribblehead Sheep Show, Yorkshire

1988-90 Honorary President, British Fertility Society

1989 Co-winner, King Faisal International Prize for Medicine

1990 Honorary Member, Pacific Coast Fertility Society

1991 Steptoe Memorial Medal and Prize, British Fertility Society

Marshall Medal, Society for the Study of Fertility, UK

1992 Honorary Fellow, German Society of Gynecology and Obstetrics

Honorary President, French Gynecological Society

Keys of San Diego City, USA

1993 Honorary Fellow, Royal Society of Medicine, London

Honorary Fellow, European Society Human Reproduction and Embryology, Thessaloniki

Barbara Eck Manning Award, Resolve, USA

Opening Ceremony for the establishment of the Middle East Fertility Society: Celebratory Lecture

1994 Berthold-Gedachtnis Medal, German Society of Endocrinology

Distinguished Scientist, Annual Meeting, American Society of Reproduction & Medicine, Seattle

1995 Honorary Member, Italian Society of Anatomy

Council Member, The Galton Institute, London

1996 Pierre Soupart Lecture, Axel Munthe Award, Naples

Honorary Member of the Austrian Society of In Vitro Fertilization

1997 Visiting Professor, 110^th Anniversary Celebrations, University of Hong Kong

1998 Gold Medal, University of Sassari, Sardinia

Honorary Member, Association of UK Clinical Embryologists (ACE)

Honorary President, Alpha – International Society for Scientists in Reproductive Medicine Honorary Member, Greek Fertility Society

Honorary Fellow, International Federation of Fertility Societies, San Francisco

1999 Gold Medal Award of the International Federation of Associations of Anatomists Malpighi Symposium, University of Rome

Honorary Member of the Middle East Fertility Society

Patron, UK National Gamete Donation Trust

2000 Bertarelli Foundation Award in Reproductive Healthcare

FIGO Recognition Award to non-Obstetricians/Gynecologists

Life Membership, Indian Society for the Study of Reproduction and Fertility

Ida Scudder Oration, Vellore, India

Rotary Club, Chennai “For the Sake of Honour Award”

2001 Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research

Honorary Membership, Society for Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, American Society of Reproductive Medicine

2002 First Awardee of the Robert Edwards Keynote Lecture, ESHRE, Vienna

Robert Edwards Award, American Infertility Association, New York

Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award, Reproductive Biology Professional Group, ASRM

The Grand Hamdan International Award for Obstetrics and Gynecology (Infertility)

2003 Award of the Egyptian Ministry of Health

Reception Buckingham Palace “Pioneers of the Nation”

Principal/Opening Lecturer - 1998

Annual Meeting of German IVF, Guest Lecture

Honorary Lecture, Profile of a Pioneer, Patrick C Steptoe. First Magisterial Tribune in Human Reproduction, Buenos Aires

Japan Society of Fertilization and Implantation

Obstetrics and Gynaecology Congress, Singapore

Honorary President, IVF Congress, Vancouver

Celebration of IVF, Middle East Fertility Society, Marrakech

Steptoe Memorial Lecturer, Kings College, London

Holme Lecturer, University College, London

Principal/Opening Lecturer – 1999

Italian Society of Sterility and Fertility, Milan

Implantation Meeting, Valencia

Workshop on Blastocyst development and early implantation, University of Lund

Opening lecture, Alpha/SIRT workshop, Sydney

Opening ceremony, 11^th World congress on In Vitro Fertilization and Human Reproductive Genetics, Sydney

Mammalian Follicle and Oocyte Culture Workshop, Kilpisjarvi Biological Station, Finland

Lecture to the Bertarelli Foundation, ESHRE annual meeting, Tours

Guest Lecture, Oldham Municipal Anniversary Celebrations

Honorary President, 15^th Congress of International Federation of Associations of Anatomists, Rome

Honorary President, Alpha Conference, Copenhagen

Workshop on Reproductive Medicine, University of Lubeck

Lead Speaker, Middle East Fertility Society, Sharm El Sheikh

Principal/Opening Lecturer – 2000

Opening Lecture, New Treatment Approaches in Human Reproductive Medicine, Porto, Portugal

Invited speaker, ART and the Human Blastocyst, Dana Point, California, USA

Invited speaker, The International Congress on Reproductive Medicine, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Tel Aviv, Israel.

WHO World Congress on Medicine and Health: Medicine meets Millennium, Chairperson on Reproductive Health, Hannover

Chairperson at the joint meeting of the UK Fertility Societies, Edinburgh

Invited speaker, National Meeting of the Mexican Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Monterrey

17^th Annual Howard and Georgeanna visiting Professor, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA

Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore, India

Principal/Opening Lecturer – 2001

Opening Lecture, Optimizing IVF Results, Aswan, Egypt

Honorary President, International Congress on Reproductive Medicine, Antalya, Turkey

Opening Lecture, Latin American Network of Assisted Reproduction, Huatulco, Mexico

Opening Lecture, 4^th IVF Meeting, Osaka, Japan

Principal/Opening Lecturer – 2002

Opening Lecture, 2^nd Organon Expert Meeting, Rottach-Egern, Germany

Plenary Lecture, 12^th World Congress on In Vitro Fertilization and Molecular Reproduction, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Welcome & Introduction, Toward Optimizing ART: A Tribute to Howard and Georgeanna Jones, Williamsburg, USA

Plenary Lecture, 11^th World Congress on Human Reproduction, Montreal, Canada

President and Opening Lecture, 1^st Mediterranean Congress on Reproductive Medicine

Principal/Opening Lecturer – 2003

Opening lecture Assisted Reproduction: past, present and future, Royal Society of Medicine, London, UK

3^rd International Symposium of Reproductive Medicine, Mexico City, Mexico

Key note lecture, 2^nd Mediterranean Congress of Reproductive Medicine, Alexandria, Egypt

5^th International Symposium of Preimplantation Genetics, Antalya, Turkey

25 Years of IVF, A celebration of Reproductive Medicine, Roycal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, London, UK

Invited lecture, Norwegian Gynecology Society

Malpighi Lecture, 5^th International Malpighi Symposium, Rome, Italy

source : http://reproduction.med.duth.gr/edwardseng.html

LOVE

Data dan Fakta Robert Edwards, Penerima Nobel Kedokteran 2010 yang Kontroversial