“Born in Yorkshire – Bob Edwards and IVF” – Professor Jim Drife
January
15,
2021
This is the belated Valedictory address of Professor Jim Drife, YMS President 2019-20.
Sir Bob Edwards was an English physiologist and pioneer in reproductive medicine and in-vitro fertilisation in particular, who worked in conjunction with the surgeon Patrick Steptoe. In 2010 he was awarded Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine ‘for the development of in vitro fertilization’