FILM: Robert Edwards at 100 – Part 2
PET presents a series of talks celebrating the 100th birthday of the late IVF pioneer Professor Sir Robert Edwards. This second talk is by Edwards' colleague, Professor Barry Bavister...
Professor Barry Bavister
University of New Orleans/Audubon Nature Institute
Professor Barry Bavister was the first person ever to witness IVF in humans (while working alongside the IVF pioneer Professor Sir Robert Edwards in 1968), and was also coauthor of the first published paper to describe IVF in humans (in 1969). His subsequent work led to the birth (in 1983) of the world's first IVF rhesus monkey – a monkey named 'Petri', whose health and fertility helped to confirm that IVF in humans was safe. Barry went on to become Professor of Conservation and Reproductive Biology at the University of New Orleans, and at the Audubon Centre for Research of Endangered Species (part of the Audubon Nature Institute).
BioNews Articles by Professor Barry Bavister
Working with Robert Edwards at the dawn of IVF
Professor Barry Bavister explains how he became the first person ever to witness IVF in humans, when he looked down a microscope in 1968 while working alongside IVF pioneer Professor Sir Robert Edwards...