Danish-Swedish R&D Project will improve Medically Assisted Reproduction

The world’s largest male offspring cohort to examine the fetal origin of adult reproductive function – called the Fetal Programming of Semen Quality (FEPOS) was established in 2017 as part of Katia Keglberg Hærvig’s PhD project, funded by ReproUnion. “We needed the...

Around 2 percent of all men are not producing sperm cells and would therefore not benefit from fertility treatment to become biological fathers. In collaboration with scientists from 20 Universities around the world, ReproUnion colleagues at Rigshospitalet have now...

In June, the message about the ReproUnion Biobank and Infertility Cohort (RUBIC) spread across Danish, Swedish and scientific media – exactly one year after RUBIC enrolled the first infertile couples! “Today every 10th child is conceived after fertility treatment and...

Infertility affects 15-26% of Danish couples. Male infertility plays a role in approximately half of the cases and a rather large proportion of those are still unexplained. Male reproduction is complex. It requires strict regulation of hormonal feedback loops as well...

It is with great sadness that we received the news that Professor Bernard Jégou from Rennes, France, has passed away on the 11th of May 2021. Bernard Jegou was one of the world’s leading reproductive researchers and a person with whom scientific collaboration quickly...