The first fertility counselling clinic opened at Rigshospitalet in 2011 with support from ReproUnion. Now the Independent Research Fund Denmark has granted DKK 2 million to Anja Pinborg to investigate whether a decade with 3,700 consultations have led to different family formation patterns.

With the funding the research project wants to show that testicular tissue and spermatogenic stem cells can be frozen and transplanted back into the same man to restore fertility. In this way, both men with non-obstructive azoospermia and long-term survivors of childhood cancer will have an opportunity to have children of their own.

At the ReproUnion Summit on 2 September 2022, the public-private partnership celebrated a decade of multi-disciplinary collaboration to overcome infertility and took a future perspective to continue building the next generation of reproductive researchers, as well as to build capacity by supporting the scale up of innovative ideas in collaboration with start-ups and other companies in the field of reproduction.