This film documents the PET event '10 Years of Womb Transplants: What Have We Learned? What Does the Future Hold?', supported by Create Health Foundation and Merck.
The film features the medical pioneers responsible for the world's first live birth following a uterus transplant (in 2014, see BioNews 775) and for the UK's first live birth following a uterus transplant (in 2025, see BioNews 1285).
If you can't see the film embedded above, you can watch it on YouTube.
| Introduction | |
| 0:00:00 | Sarah Norcross Director, Progress Educational Trust |
| Presentations | |
| 0:03:49 | Professor Mats Brännström Pioneer of uterus transplantation and leader of the team responsible for the birth of Vincent Stenberg, the world's first child born following a uterus transplant |
| 0:15:01 | Professor J Richard Smith Joint leader of the surgical team responsible for the UK's first uterus transplant, and for the subsequent birth of Amy Isabel Davidson |
| 0:26:12 | Isabel Quiroga Joint leader of the surgical team responsible for the UK's first uterus transplant, and for the subsequent birth of Amy Isabel Davidson |
| 0:36:37 | Eleanor Findlater Patient and Adviser to Womb Transplant UK |
| 0:42:55 | Dr Natasha Hammond-Browning Senior Lecturer in Law, Cardiff University |
| Discussion | |
| 0:55:38 | Responses to audience questions and comments |
This film was made by Video Production Edinburgh.
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