Research Overview
Dr. Roger Gosden is an internationally renowned scientist who has helped to pioneer reproductive biology and innovative medical treatments for infertility. He is a Professor of Reproductive Medicine at the Institute for Reproductive Medicine, Director of Research in Reproductive Biology at CRMI, and a Professor of Reproductive Medicine in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University.Dr. Gosden has a special interest in the human egg. The biology and pathology of this cell are foundations for advancing clinically assisted reproduction, understanding the causes of birth defects, especially Down syndrome, and for identifying novel contraceptive targets. He is known to the public from writing and broadcasting about fertility preservation. In the 1990s, his experimental work was a major stimulus to the emergence of new technologies for helping patients to have healthy children after undergoing potentially sterilizing treatment for cancer and other diseases. He has published hundreds of research studies supported by various agencies, including the Medical Research Council (UK), the Population Council (New York), the Wellcome Trust, Leukemia Research Fund, the Royal Society of London, the Canadian Foundation for Innovation and the Canadian Institutes of Health. Among his several books, two acclaimed volumes were written for general readers (Cheating Time and Designing Babies). He is a member of editorial boards and has been an advisor to industry and to several national governments. For these achievements, he has received some of the highest honors in his field, including the Steptoe Medal (British Fertility Society), Amoroso Lectureship (Society for Reproduction and Fertility), the President's Lecture (Society for the Study of Fertility) and the Distinguished Scientist Lecture (American Society for Reproductive Medicine). In addition, Dr. Gosden is a committed and accomplished educator who established the first online, distance learning degree programs in clinical embryology in both Europe and the USA.Dr. Gosden was trained at the premier centers for reproductive science in the United Kingdom. Following his undergraduate education at Bristol University, he began his research career in 1970 at Darwin College, Cambridge, under Robert Edwards who, with Patrick Steptoe, achieved the world's first successful human IVF child in 1978. Dr. Gosden was awarded his Ph.D. in Physiology from Cambridge University in 1974, and was awarded a D.Sc. by Edinburgh University in 1989 for meritorious research. He has been a research fellow at Duke University and a visiting professor at the University of Southern California (Andrus Gerontology Center) and the University of Naples. He was on the faculty of Edinburgh University Medical School for 18 years. Appointed to the first chair of reproductive biology at Leeds University in 1994, he subsequently transferred to McGill University and the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal where he was Scientific Director in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. From 2001-2004, Dr. Gosden was the Scientific Director and Howard and Georgeanna Jones Professor of Reproductive Medicine at the Jones Institute in Eastern Virginia Medical School where clinical IVF began in America.For more information, please visit our site at: http://www.ivf.org/
