Rod Mitchell

😊 Lovely work in @ScienceMagazine by Hayashi group on building a #testis from stem cells. 📝 Check out this perspective* on how this could one day help us to restore fertility in males 🙏 👉 tinyurl.com/mrx49fjz The paper can be viewed here 👉 tinyurl.com/3853y5m9

Today for #WorldCancerDay, we invite you to join us at SfE BES on 2-4 March, to hear talks including a session on fertility preservation in male childhood cancer from Professor @rodtmitchell.bsky.social, Principal Investigator at University of Edinburgh. Find out more: bit.ly/SfEBES26

💫 Protecting future possibilities in pediatric fertility care! When patients and parents disagree on #FertilityPreservation, whose voice leads? How do we counsel cancer survivors facing pregnancy risks? 📅 26–27 March 2026 | 📍 Lisbon 📈 6 CME credits 🔗 www.eshre.eu/Education/Ca...

🥳 Massive congratulations to Seema Banglawala for winning the award for Best Oral Presentation in the Early Career Session at #Fertility2026 🏆. Seema presented her summer project on protecting the testis from chemotherapy. 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻 @srf_societyuk @edinfertility

🥳 Great session of selected oral presentations at the UK Fertility Preservation Conference today. Excellent presentations from the large Edinburgh contingent 😊 #GraceForsyth #KathleenDuffin #AgnesStefansdottir #EmmaKearney #BritishFertilitySociety #EdinFertility #OrchidNet

Environmental exposures in-utero are very likely to affect reproductive function in males…but which ones and how much? wapo.st/47YJpWS Glad to have been able to contribute to this piece in @washingtonpost along with Terje Svingen, Leonardo Trasande and others.

Well all things have to come to an end 😢 It has been an absolute pleasure to perform ‘Talking Bollocks’ at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Thanks to @suziemo The Provocateurs and @StandComedyClub teams for making a little boys dream come true 🙏

🌟 Partner spotlight: @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social‬, Centre for Reproductive Health. In #PredictAYA, the team (@rodtmitchell.bsky.social and Richard Anderson) ‬co-leads work on late effects of #cancertreatment in males and supports research on #reproductivehealth in female #cancer patients. #HorizonEU

Delighted to say that registration is now open for this years UK Fertility Preservation Annual conference. Clinical Frontiers in Fertility Preservation is organised by @BritFertSoc and has a great programme. Check it out and register here 👉 www.britishfertilitysociety.org.uk/civicrm/even...

Are you a parent/carer of a young man who has had cancer? We are keen to hear your views on a new resource designed to raise awareness of the ways in which cancer treatment can affect fertility. Interested? Contact d.musson@leedsbeckett.ac.uk Please share!

Super-excited that the incredible Ria Lina ⭐⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ @rialina.com will be hosting #TalkingBollocks 🍒 & #ChildrensMoney 💰 at the @standcomedyclub.bsky.social on 5th August. Tickets now available for this Edinburgh Fringe Festival @edfringe.bsky.social show 👇 🎟️ www.edfringe.com/tickets/what... 🎟️

We will be collecting donations for Children with Cancer UK at our Edinburgh Fringe @edfringe.bsky.social preview @StandComedyClub.bsky.social all about #FertilityPreservation in #ChildhoodCancer. Even if you aren’t at the show you can still donate 👉 www.childrenwithcancer.org.uk/make-a-donat...

Take top academics, thought-provoking ideas, add one comedian… introducing The Provocateurs at EdFringe! 🧠 Join IRR researchers Rod Mitchell, Rana Fetit and Rosie Townsend as they unravel the mysteries of testicles, brains, and life as a fetus. 🎟️ More info and tickets: edin.ac/469Vsjw

Today @rodtmitchell.bsky.social and I had the chance to practice the material we prepared for our Fringe shows at @edinuni-irr.bsky.social. Thanks to all those who showed up, and for your support and feedback! Check out the programme - tickets are now on sale: www.thestand.co.uk/whats-on/sho...

An impressive erection 😳 and a sperm still intent on chasing the egg… even in 35 degrees of heat. Paris is the perfect setting for #ESHRE2025. Safe travels and see you tomorrow @ESHRE 🇫🇷

📚ESHRE Good Practice Recommendations on #FertilityPreservation in boys receiving gonadotoxic therapies📚- Open access paper published today & will be presented at #ESHRE2025. #ChildhoodCancer. Thanks to the Working Group for their huge effort 👉 bit.ly/4lr3bOe

Very much looking forward to this public webinar with my fantastic colleague Mark Brougham and @cclguk.bsky.social to talk about how #Fertility is affected by #ChildhoodCancer treatment. We plan to leave lots of time at the end so if you have a burning 🔥 question…here’s your chance 😊

KICK-OFF ⚽️ for this exciting new @EU_Commission project. The PREDICT-AYA study is a €6.4M project to identify predictive factors for future reproductive health & #fertility in AYA/TYA with cancer. Delighted to be leading the male WP with Csilla Krausz. #FertilityPreservation

The Fringe @edfringe.bsky.social is just around the corner. Rana @ranafetit.bsky.social will be deconstructing brains, while I am talking bollocks (nothing new there 😂). Check out all the great Provocateurs shows ➡️ www.thestand.co.uk/whats-on/sho.... Tickets are available now 🕺💃

Wow!!!!!

Male mouse fetuses can develop female organs in utero if their mother is iron deficient during pregnancy https://go.nature.com/43N7f4s

Looking forward to chairing today’s @ESHRE webinar by Peter Schlegel on TESE for young males as part of the Addressing Today’s Biggest Challenges series. @SIGFertPreser. You can find out more about this series here 👉 www.eshre.eu/Education/We...

Congratulations to researchers Kathleen Duffin, Emma Kearney, and Emily Walshe who are winners of the Nigel and Val Shepherd Memorial Award! This award is an early career researcher grant for fertility preservation in young people with cancer. Read our article: edin.ac/4jft2ay...

Lovely evening with the testis and ovary teams 😆, welcoming new team members. Team testis were lost in space but managed to escape 🚀 …just 😉

Fantastic ‘How do I manage…’ session on Graves Disease from Tim Cheetham @EuroSPE today. Always provides a common sense approach to managing patients and even a nod to the ‘Toon Army’ at the end ⚽️ #ConnectingEndocrinology2025 #EndocrinologyAcrossTheLifeCourse

Heading to #espe2025 in Denmark 🇩🇰 after a short trip to Latvia 🇱🇻 to speak at the International Workshop Andrology and Reproductive Medicine in Riga. My Latvian may not be up to much but I think I can work out what this room is for 😉 #ConnectingEndocrinology2025

A fantastic talk from Grace about #chemotherapy exposure in the #testis 👏🏼👏🏼 So important for protection of #fertility in #ChildhoodCancer 🎗️

Very proud of Emma for this fantastic talk at #ETW2025! Check out her paper to learn more about germ cell quantification in the immature testis 👇🏼

Back in rainy Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 reflecting on a fantastic #EuropeanTestisWorkshop. What a great few days sharing science and fun with friends. Thank you to @andronet.bsky.social, the ETW committee and the local organizing committee 🇳🇱 for putting together such a special conference. #ETW2025 #TestesBesties

Rounding off the talks from the Edinburgh team, we have @kathleensuffin.bsky.social with a great talk on in-vitro exposure to chemotherapy in the testis 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 #FertilityPreservation.

We come to the end of another successful European Testis Workshop. Thank you to the organising committee for the amazing work! #ETW2025

Lovely talk from @GraceForsyth13 on an in-vivo model for chemotherapy exposure in the #testis. Important work for developing strategies for #FertilityPreservation 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Superb talk by Sara di Persio on spermatogonial single cell sequencing at #ETW2025.

European Testis Workshop #ETW2025 in The Netherlands. The highlight of the calendar for testis 🥎 🎱 ⚽️ 🏉 enthusiasts. This time (as opposed to Washington!) some of the lab team are actually here IRL 😉😂😂😂

👨 Are you a young man (>16yrs): ✅ diagnosed with cancer aged 11-25?   We would love to hear your views on a new resource, designed to help young males with #cancer with their #fertility & #FertilityPreservation. If you can help or want to learn more please get in touch 👇

European Testis Workshop #ETW2025. The highlight of the testicular enthusiasts calendar 🕺💃

This April, we're joining other cancer charities to raise awareness of the unique set of challenges facing young people with cancer during Teenage and Young Adult Cancer Awareness Month. Help us amplify their voices this #TYACAM. Read more 👉 ow.ly/Q5SQ50Vs5MS

Enjoying some great science and discussion at #ASA_ICA25Conf in Washington, surrounded by many of the legends in #Andrology 🕺💃. Looking forward to presenting the work of @edinfertility, the @ORCHID_NET_Fert consortium and of course, the fantastic lab team 🙏👇👇👇

👀 We are looking for males aged 11-25 who have had #cancer (or their family members) to help develop a new @CFMyoungmen resource to support young people make decisions about future #fertility. #CCLG2025. See below for how to get involved 👇

🚨 Calling all UK Paediatric Oncologists/ Haematologists 🚨 at #CCLG2025. We will update on our clinical trial to restore #Fertility in young males after cancer treatment. WE NEED YOUR HELP 🗣️ to find eligible patients. Come along to #CCLG25 tomorrow to find out more👇

It’s official 🎉… @ranafetit.bsky.social and I will be amongst the @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social performers at this years Edinburgh Fringe Festival @edfringe.bsky.social at the Stand Comedy Club @standcomedyclub.bsky.social 🕺💃. More news to follow…

All set for ‘IVF-47 Years Later’ in the beautiful city of Athens. I will be talking about #FertilityPreservation in boys, including the work being done @edinfertility and @ORCHID_NET_Fert 😊

👀 We are looking for males aged 11-25 who have had #cancer (or their family members) to help develop a new @CFMyoungmen resource to support young people make decisions about future #fertility. See below for how to get involved 👇

Congratulations Margit Bistrup Fischer on defending her #PhD on Paracetamol effects on Ovarian Function. It was a pleasure to be an examiner 😊. PS: I think all PhD defences should end with a song written for the candidate…not that I understood the Danish (except Nutella) 😂

Delighted to have been awarded an International Joint Project grant from @royalsoced.bsky.social This will fund 12 exchange visits between @edinuni-irr.bsky.social and @uni_muenster over the next 2 years. 👉 tinyurl.com/5n7fkvwa. Looking forward to enhancing 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇩🇪 collaborations @EdinUni_CRH 🕺💃

Had a BRILLIANT time on Friday evening chatting about all things uterus for @srfsocietyuk.bsky.social Bits ‘n Bobs outreach event @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social MASSIVE congrats to all organisers and helpers but particularly to @drerinwill.bsky.social, Agnes & @rodtmitchell.bsky.social #reprorocks