Our Nobel Prize dies, Dr. Robert Edwards, whom the reproductive medicine community considers as the father of the assisted reproduction in the world. after many comings and goings, and making their first attempts at In vitro fertilization of human oocytes with Professor Howartd Jones, Jr., of Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, USA achieves its first clinical outcome alongside Professor Patrick Steptoe with the birth of Louise Brown on the night of July 25, 1978 in the then called Oldham General Hospital (today the Royal Oldham Hospital). Not only did he bring happiness to the home of John and Lesley Brown, Louise’s parents, who had 9 years of unsuccessful efforts to achieve a pregnancy, but they managed to overcome a previously unthinkable barrier from many points of view.

Like any paradigm shift, the advent of In vitro fertilization Not only did it imply great scientific challenges, but also monumental resistance in the scientific community, and in the ethical, the moral and the religious, where deep opponents of this technology are still found today.

The scientific rigor of Dr. Edwards, in addition to his charming personality and his compassionate, affectionate approach to the challenges of science led him to show incontrovertible results that undoubtedly overshadow the aforementioned difficulties. In 2010, Professor Edwards won the Nobel Prize in Medicine at the age of 87, in the twilight of his life in recognition of his work in the scientific world and his contributions to science.

There were many opportunities that the members of the Reprotec Fertility Center team of the Santa Fé de Bogotá Foundation had in which we were able to listen to Dr Edwards, in international meetings and share personally with him, breakfasts and work meetings benefiting from his wise and generous advice.

His departure from this world mourns the community of reproductive sciences but in Reprotec will always be remembered and followed in its principles.

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