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Robert Winston’s Institute of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Trust Launches an exciting new logo and name: "Genesis Research Trust - science for the health of women and babies’
World leading scientist, professor, broadcaster and author, Lord (Robert) Winston has unveiled an exciting new look to the prestigious Institute of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Trust (IOGT) of which he is chairman. Its new name is now Genesis Research Trust (with a strap line: science for the health of women and babies) and its logo is depicted at the top of this page.
The Genesis Research Trust was founded in 1985 as a charity to raise money to finance the largest UK-based collection of scientists and clinicians working tirelessly to help find the causes, and therefore the cures to many conditions that affect the health of mother and baby.
Cancer, miscarriage, genetic diseases, stillbirth, polycystic ovary syndrome, pre-eclampsia, infertility, obstetric cholestasis and brain damage are all diseases and conditions that leading scientists funded by the Genesis Research Trust are working to prevent.
With around 250 babies dying weekly in the UK from complications during pregnancy (1 in 8 babies born prematurely; 1 in 4 women experience miscarriage; 1 in 175 babies are stillborn), this charity lies at the heart of the most profound of all human wishes: to have a happy and healthy family.
The research conducted at the Institute is concerned with all aspects of diseases affecting women and their children. The work has a high international reputation and many major advances have been made, including:
• One of the first screening programmes for cervical cancer
• Early advances into placental physiology
• Early development of IVF
• The development of screening for fatal genetic diseases in fertilised eggs
• Many new treatments to improve fertility and contraception
• The prevention of premature labour
• Investigation into genes involved in female cancers and embryo implantation
• The reduction of brain damage in babies born in a vulnerable state
Unlike many other charities in this field, Genesis Research Trust is actually based in the research building where the scientists carry out their research. The building is called the “Wolfson and Weston Research Institute for Family Health at Imperial College” named after two forward thinking donors who wanted to make a contribution to this area of medicine.
Many of the scientists who work here are leading lights in their fields, such as Professor Catherine Williamson, making discoveries into Obstetric Homeostasis; Professor Franks, making discoveries into Polycystic Ovary Syndrome and early menopause; Professor Phillip Bennett making discoveries pre-term birth; Professor Jan Brosens making discoveries into miscarriage and pre-term birth; Professor Henry Hagberg making discoveries into cerebral palsy; Professor Ilpo Huhtaniemi making discoveries into hormone dependent cancers and new birth control methods for men and women; all overseen by Professor Malcolm Parker who is making discoveries into causes of infertility.