PET Podcast: 10 Years of Womb Transplants – What Have We Learned? What Does the Future Hold?

The 23rd episode of the Progress Educational Trust podcast 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). There are contributions from Professor Mats Brännström, Professor J Richard Smith, Isabel Quiroga, Eleanor Findlater and Dr Natasha Hammond-Browning.

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We would like to thank Jon Nicoll (who created the opening and closing music for our podcast), and also Create Health Foundation and Merck (which supported the event featured in the 23rd episode).

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