Focus on: IVF is 40 +
IVF is 40 – in 2018 the world’s first IVF clinic celebrated 40 years since the birth of Louise Brown, the world’s first test-tube baby, and the breakthroughs in fertility treatment in the decades since.
After their success the IVF pioneers Patrick Steptoe, Robert Edwards and Jean Purdy established a clinic to transform a scientific breakthrough into a robust medical treatment. This work took place at Bourn Hall and the clinic is still at lead of patient care and treatment.
Amazing Grace: mum of the world’s first ‘test-tube’ boy, who paved the way for IVF treatment
Posted - February 27, 2024
45 years of IVF bringing ‘Joy’ to people around the world
Posted - July 25, 2023
Louise Brown celebrates World Embryologist Day at Bourn Hall
Posted - July 24, 2023
Australian IVF campaigner and Bourn Hall baby turns 40
Posted - January 19, 2023
How IVF has changed our lives
Posted - November 2, 2022
Happy birthday Louise Brown
Posted - July 25, 2022
Jean Purdy, IVF pioneer and co-founder of Bourn Hall
Posted - March 25, 2022
Happy Birthday Louise Brown!
Posted - July 24, 2021
Happy 40th Birthday Alastair MacDonald, the world’s first IVF boy
Posted - January 14, 2019
Bourn Hall Staff Summer Party
Posted - August 16, 2018
Video “We’ve come a long way” – Bourn Hall Clinic (IVF is 40)
Posted - July 25, 2018
Louise Brown celebrates her 40th birthday at Bourn Hall
Posted - July 25, 2018
The story of IVF: 6 million babies later celebrated at Science Museum
Posted - July 22, 2018
Jean Purdy IVF pioneer celebrated with memorial service
Posted - July 21, 2018
Louise Brown celebrates the life of Jean Purdy with her living legacy
Posted - July 20, 2018
IVF is 40 in 2018 – the treatment continues to improve
Posted - July 20, 2018
IVF is 40: First blastocyst created
Posted - July 1, 2018
Dr Kay Elder – ‘A life in Glass’
Posted - June 6, 2018
Louise Brown: “My life as the world’s first test-tube baby” – autobiography launched at Bourn Hall
Posted - July 23, 2015
Louise Brown is 36, Bourn Hall remembers IVF pioneers
Posted - July 25, 2014
Alastair MacDonald: The world’s first IVF boy celebrates 35th birthday
Posted - January 14, 2014
The Bourn Hall Legacy – 35 years of IVF
Posted - July 25, 2013
Tributes to Professor Sir Robert Edwards
Posted - April 12, 2013
Sad Loss Of Lesley Brown – First IVF Mother
Posted - June 20, 2012