FILM: Donation of human eggs and embryos to research

In this presentation, Professor Geraldine Hartshorne explains that donation of human eggs and human embryos plays a vital role in research, and can lead to improvements in fertility treatment and wider scientific understanding.

Professor Hartshorne also makes the case for changing UK law, to facilitate the establishment of a centralised tissue bank for human eggs and human embryos that have been donated to research.

(If you can't see the film below, click/tap here to view it.)

PET (the Progress Educational Trust) supports Professor Hartshorne's proposal of a centralised tissue bank for human eggs and embryos, and has made a case for this in its submission to a consultation by the UK fertility regulator (the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority). Read this submission (and in particular p11-15) here.

If patients, professionals or anyone else has any queries for Professor Hartshorne, or would like to discuss collaboration with her team, please email geraldine.hartshorne@warwick.ac.uk

If you have queries specifically about the egg-sharing-to-research programme at the Coventry Centre for Reproductive Medicine, please contact Dr Rina Agrawal (consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist) at rina.agrawal@uhcw.nhs.uk

GP referrals to the egg-sharing-to-research programme should be made to:

Dr Rina Agrawal
Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist
Centre for Reproductive Medicine
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust
Clifford Bridge Road
Coventry CV2 2DX

Professor Hartshorne's presentation was originally given at the PET event 'Where Art Meets ART: Creative Exploration of Fertility Research and Treatment'.