The father of IVF received the Nobel Prize for Medicine

Dr. Robert G. Edwards, the father of in vitro fertilization, was honored to be the owner of this year's Nobel Prize for Medicine. The result of the award has just been announced at 16:30 on October 4 (VN time).

Robert G. Edwards (right), the father of in vitro fertilization, the owner of the 2010 Nobel Prize for Medicine.

According to the Nobel Prize Committee, Mr. Edwards (UK) was honored for bringing joy to parents for about 4 million people in the world.

Dr. Robert G. Edwards was born on September 27, 1925 in Leeds, a pioneering British physiologist in the field of human fertility research, especially in vitro fertilization (IVF). .

Together with surgeon Patrick Steptoe, Mr. Edwards led to the birth of the world's first in vitro fertilized baby Louise Joy Brown on July 25, 1978.

After graduating from Manchester Central High School, Edwards served in the British Army, then attended the University of Wales, Bangor's agricultural department.

Next, he studied at the Institute of Animal Genetics, University of Edinburgh. He obtained his PhD in 1955. In 1963, he worked for Cambridge.

This was a surprising result because earlier, many experts predicted that Japanese professor Shinya Yamanaka would "take" the prize. Professor Shinya Yamanaka, who works at Kyoto University, has discovered a way to create stem cells from normal skin cells instead of human embryos.

This finding shocked the scientific community when it was announced in 2007 because it helped to avoid moral controversies because before that, scientists had to use human eggs to make embryos, then destroy embryos to Germ cell extract.

In 2009, Professor Yamanaka was awarded the Lasker Award for the discovery. The Lasker Award is a prestigious American award in the field of basic medical research, often referred to as the ' American Nobel Prize ' and is considered a 'prelude' to the Nobel Prize for Medicine. Historically, many Lasker Award winners have been awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine afterwards.

Earlier, the AP also predicted that along with Professor Yamanaka, this year's Nobel Prize in Medicine would most likely be shared with Canadian researchers Ernest McCulloch and James Till by recognizing germ cells; or pioneer in John Gurdon asexual reproduction (UK).

Other names are thought to be more likely to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine, the scientist Ralph Steinman (USA) with the work of discovering cells capable of regulating the immune response; Ronald Evans - Elwood Jensen - Pierre Chambon (France, USA) with a research work on nuclear hormone receptors; Douglas Coleman - Jeffrey Friedman (USA) with the discovery of hormones causing appetite, opened a breakthrough in the study of obesity .

Like every year, this year's Nobel Prize winner will receive $ 1.5 million, a certificate and a gold medal.