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Graham Burton being presented with the 2019 SRF Distinguished Scientist Award

Three members of the Cambridge Reproduction SRI were recognised for the excellence of their research at the 2019 Society for Reproduction & Fertility (SRF) awards. The awards were presented at Fertility 2020, the largest UK educational forum focusing on fertility and reproductive medicine. This year's conference was organised jointly by the SRF, the Association of Clinical Embryologists (ACE), and the British Fertility Society (BFS), and took place in Edinburgh on 9-11 January 2020.

Professor Graham Burton, Chair of the Reproduction SRI, was presented with the SRF Distinguished Scientist Anne McLaren Award, which acknowledges "the work of premier scientists that have made major scientific contributions to the field of reproductive biology". As this year's Distinguished Scientist, Professor Burton delivered the Anne McLaren Memorial Lecture at the opening plenary session of the Fertility 2020 conference, on the topic "Placentation: The platform for life-long health".

Also recognised at the SRF awards were Dr Jorge Lopez-Tello and Kate Williams, both members of the SRI. Dr Lopez-Tello won the 2019 SRF Postdoctoral Prize, which is aimed at postdoctoral scientists who are within five years of having obtained their PhD. Dr Lopez-Tello's prize as awarded for his presentation "Aberrant Igf2-H19 expression in the placental endocrine zone increases the susceptibility of the mother to poor metabolic health". As the prizewinner, Dr Lopez-Tello has been invited to present his talk at the Society for Reproductive Biology Congress in Australia / New Zealand.

Kate Williams, a fourth-year medical student at the University of Cambridge, won the 2019 SRF Stewart Rhind Science Writing Prize for her essay "Ethicolegal Aspects of Reproductive Science: Adapting the 14-day rule for embryo research to encompass evolving technologies". Ms Williams was presented with a certificate and 1 year’s free membership of the SRF at Fertility 2020.

All photos are courtesy of the Society for Reproduction and Fertility (SRF).