Awards

Awards Professor Winston is a Faraday Medal holder from the Royal Society and has had many other prizes including a Wellcome Senior Research Fellowship 1973-77, a Blair-Bell Lectureship RCOG, 1978, the Cedric Carter Medal and the Victor Bonney Triennial Medal for contributions to surgery, Royal College of Surgeons … Continue reading

Press

Professor Lord Winston has an extensive knowledge of reproductive medicine. He has written extensively on a variety of topics for a range of audiences – see his published books and complete bibliography. He is happy to be interviewed on subjects including … Continue reading

Ask Robert Winston

Ask Robert Winston is a free question-answering service for people seeking impartial fertility advice. The service, run through Robert’s charity Genesis Research Trust, sees questions anonymised and published, along with his personal blog. The advice is offered free of charge but it … Continue reading

Bibliography

Scientific Publications in Peer-review Journals Kapustin Y, Chan E, Sarkar R, Wong F, Vorechovsky I, Winston RM, Tatusova T, Dibb NJ. Cryptic splice sites and split genes. Nucleic Acids Res. 2011 39(14):5837-5844. Winston RM. Does government regulation inhibit embryonic stem cell research and … Continue reading

Research

Robert Winston’s early research contributed to a new understanding of the female reproductive system and some of the diseases that affect millions of women worldwide. Through close collaborations with highly skilled researchers and surgeons, the work carried out by Winston … Continue reading

About Robert Winston

Lord Winston is Professor of Science and Society and Emeritus Professor of Fertility Studies at Imperial College London. In the 1970s he developed gynaecological surgical techniques that improved fertility treatments. He later pioneered new treatments to improve  in vitro fertilisation (IVF) and developed … Continue reading

Making Babies

Accompanying a six-part BBC1 television series, this is an examination of the human, ethical and emotional issues arising from in-vitro fertilization. The book presents the background to the problems faced by women who had IVF treatment during the filming of … Continue reading

Infertility: A Sympathetic Approach

What are the causes of infertility? How can it be overcome? What is involved in IVF treatment? What are the chances of success? An estimated 1 in 8 couples have trouble conceiving. In this indispensable guide, Professor Robert Winston, Director … Continue reading

Ask Robert Winston

Ask Robert Winston is a free question-answering service for people seeking impartial fertility advice. The service, run through Robert’s charity Genesis Research Trust, will then see questions anonymised and published, along with his personal blog. The advice is offered free of … Continue reading

How Science Changed Our World

Robert Winston presented his top ten scientific breakthroughs from the last 50 years. On his journey, he explored subjects from the origins of the universe to probing the inner workings of the human mind, and even met some of his … Continue reading