Dr Sasha Stormlund not only impressed the audience but also received ESHRE’s Clinical Science Award for her oral presentation showing that success rates after freezing all embryos for later transfer is no better than with fresh transfers. The study was carried out with funding from ReproUnion 1.0.

Preliminary results from a large population study based on the Danish National Birth Cohort has found that paternal smoking is associated with lower total sperm counts and sperm concentrations. The study was carried out with funding from ReproUnion 1.0 and the results were presented by at the 35th Annual Meeting of ESHRE in Vienna end of June.

The large cohort study confirms small added obstetric risk from transfer of longer developed embryos in IVF and questions if blastocyst transfer should still be encouraged at IVF clinics. Dr Anne Lærke Spangmose presented the results on the first morning of the 35th Annual Meeting of ESHRE in Vienna.

In June Lunds University announced the results of this nation-wide register study, which was published in PLOS Medicine and has been co-funded by ReproUnion.

In May ReproUnion co-organised the Life Cycle Symposium at Lund University where Anders Nyboe Andersen, professor at the Fertility Clinic, Rigshospitalet, presented results from the ReproUnion Fertility Counselling activities under the above heading. In a panel discussion with local politicians, Gilbert Tribo and Anna Mannfalk, the presenters discussed how to turn around the fertility trend and encourage healthy reproduction.

Anja Pinborg has received a 5-year Clinical Distinguished Investigator grant of DKK 8 million from the Novo Nordisk Foundation to realize the project Health in Childhood Following Assisted Reproductive Technology (HiCART).

An op-ed in the Danish newspaper Politiken is highlighting important societal problems which will arise as a consequence of delayed childbearing to older ages and the risk of infertility and involuntary childlessness as a result thereof.

First primate born from frozen testicular tissue offers researchers hope to preserve the fertility in young boys undergoing cancer treatment.

In a debate article, the swedish politicians Carl Johan Sonesson (M) and Philip Sandberg (L) are using ReproUnion as an example of how research collaborations across borders are of benefit to the region by creating more jobs and by performing high quality research which attracts international interest and above all, improves the life of patients (article in Swedish).

A few months ago, a new fertility campaign by Copenhagen municipality was focusing on men’s fertility in order to draw attention to the risk of postponing “project baby”. This campaign supported by the Capital Region of Copenhagen and the Fertility Department of Rigshospitalet in Copenhagen has received international attention from our dear neighbors in Norway and is being featured on the Norwegian TV2’s website.