Dr Kirsty Bowman, Senior Research Associate in Medical Statistics, recently attended the Wellcome Connecting Science conference: Women’s Health: Genes, Data and Advancing Approaches. Kirsty presented some preliminary work with Deborah Lawlor on genetically instrumenting infertility and looking at associations with diseases as a poster: “Identifying potential causal effects of infertility: a Mendelian randomization phenome-wide association study”.
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Hear how the ART-Health programme fits into the wider programme of work at the IEU in Bristol
In this video Deborah Lawlor gives an introduction to the Molecular drivers & predictors of pregnancy complications & future health programme at the MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit (IEU) at the University of Bristol. Deborah talks about how the ART-Health programme fits into her wider programme of work.
Deborah and Ahmed took part and presented at the GW4 funded inFer Network 2nd meeting
Deborah Lawlor and Ahmed Elhakeem took part and presented at the GW4 funded inFer Network 2nd meeting.
The GW4 grant that supported this event is linked to ART-health and supports us collaborating with academics from different disciplines.
An illustrated visual capturing the key ideas from the talks and activities of the event can be viewed below and on the inFer website here.
Ahmed Elhakeem presented on the ART-HEALTH partnership at the GW4 inFer
Ahmed Elhakeem presented on the ART-HEALTH partnership at the GW4 inFer (https://gw4.ac.uk/community/fertility-in-vitro-in-silico-in-clinico/) launch event. This a network of interdisplinary people aiming to improve the success rate of IVF.
Reassurance for parents with children born via assisted reproductive technology or too soon to tell?
Read editorial on our latest research here
Australian collaborators ART-HEALTH meeting February 2023
Melbourne ART and Health meeting 14/02/2023
The aim of the meeting was to bring together collaborators with the European Research Council funded A.R.T-HEALTH programme from Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, China and Japan to meet in person and share previous and on-going research projects and plans.
Fertility treatment does not adversely affect cardiovascular health of offspring, international study suggests
A large study looking at the effects of fertility treatment has found no robust difference in blood pressure, heart rate, lipids, and glucose measurements between children conceived naturally and those conceived using assisted reproductive technologies (ART).
Read University of Bristol press release on our research here.
Concerns about effects of fertility treatment on children’s development are unwarranted, large study suggests
Differences in the growth, weight, and body fat levels of children conceived through fertility treatment are small, and no longer apparent by late adolescence, finds new research.
Read University of Bristol press release on our research here
European Research Council Advanced Grant ART-HEALTH Kick off meeting
Wednesday 28th September 2022 at Wills Hall, Bristol. (more…)