Research lead for male fertility preservation in children with cancer. Professor & Paediatric Endocrinologist. Family 🧑🧑🧒🧒 & ⚽️ (usually in that order🤣)
Edinburgh, Scotland
Joined March 2014
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🚨 News from the team 🚨
We have joined @bluesky to help spread the word on #FertilityPreservation in #ChildhoodCancer. You can keep up with our work on @X or follow us on @bluesky @RodTMitchell and all the major social media channels. Keep your 👀 peeled for updates 😊
🗞️ Thrillled to be able to share that we have conducted the first UK testicular tissue transplant to restore fertility in boys due to receive cancer treatment. 👨⚕️
It’s 12 years since we started our research programme to cryopreserve testicular tissue 🥜
m.youtube.com/watch?v=syn2Mi…
Special thanks to the study team in #Edinburgh:
@ShuklaCj; phil hammond; @evelyn_telfer; Ahmed Ajlan; @profdicanderson; Mark Brougham; Michaela Rodger; @MayaChetty1 Chetty; Daniel Collins; Allie McGuinness; @SZahra74
@LothianChildren
@SNBTS_TCAT
@EdinburghUni
@CwC_UK
🎤 It was an absolute blast 💥 being able to perform my new show #SPERMAGEDDON at the @edfringe in July…even if I end up as an ‘eejit in a skin-tight leotard in a comedy club’ 🤣🤣🤣
Dr Erin Williams reflects on Professor Rod Mitchell's latest stand up comedy show at the #EdinburghFringe Festival, dedicated to male fertility.
Read for free in BioNews:progress.org.uk/event-review…
#MaleInfertility #Fertility #Reproduction #FertilityClinics #Sperm #IVGs
Rod Mitchell retweeted
Dr Erin Williams reflects on Professor Rod Mitchell's latest stand up comedy show at the #EdinburghFringe Festival, dedicated to male fertility.
Read for free in BioNews:progress.org.uk/event-review…
#MaleInfertility #Fertility #Reproduction #FertilityClinics #Sperm #IVGs
Rod Mitchell retweeted
The first UK patient has had his testicular tissue transplanted back after being cryopreserved prior to chemotherapy as a child.
Naomi Hannaway explains in BioNews: progress.org.uk/first-uk-tra…
#Fertility #Cancer #FertilityPreservation #Cancer #CancerTreatment #Sperm #StemCells
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🕺 💃 Great to see the #ORCHIDNet meeting on the programme for @ESHRE Annual Meeting this week. Looking forward to getting together to discuss #FertilityPreservation in young males 👍
Not a member? Join here 👉 orchid-net.com
#ESHRE2026
@Hilton, we have been sitting in the hotel reception for 90 mins with a reservation and you still cannot check us in. It’s 01:10 in the morning…sort this out!!!
🚨 Clinical Fellow - Fertility Preservation
Exciting opportunity to join our team caring for children and young people at risk of future infertility.
👩⚕️ 🧬 🧫 👨⚕️
To find out more click here 👉 apply.jobs.scot.nhs.uk/Job/J…
Please spread the word and share with you networks 😉 🙏
⏰ not long to go until this @PET_BioNews event on #MaleInfertility in Edinburgh. Free to attend 😊 You can register here 👉 progress.org.uk/events/upcom…
😊 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
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FREE EVENT IN EDINBURGH! 🏴
Discussing current best practice, latest insights & pioneering research that could transform treatment of male infertilty.
🗓️ Wed 18 Mar @ 6.30PM
📍 Anatomy Lecture Theatre
BOOK YOUR PLACE NOW! - progress.org.uk/event/male-i…
#MaleInfertilityFuture
🚨 PhD position - now open 🚨
Interested in doing a #PhD in #FertilityPreservation at The University of Edinburgh?
We have an exciting project on #Macrophages, #Chemotherapy & #Infertility supervised by @rrosario, @RodTMitchell and Elaine Emmerson.
findaphd.com/phds/project/ta…
🎉What a start to #Fertility2026 🎉 Thrilled for @Emma_Kearney2 on winning the @srf_societyuk Stewart Rhind Communication award 🏆 for her brilliant animation about Fertility Preservation in boys with cancer 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻
@EdinUni_IRR
#CentreforReproductiveHealth
🥳 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
Transforming NHS Culture for the 21st Century.
Check out this report focusing on using Intelligence Behaviour Analytics Framework. Introduction by my good pal @coulty78 😊
ibaworlds.org/wp-content/upl…
Hi all.
Please take a wee look at this. Something I am passionate about and some amazing people who work alongside. @BCUPressOffice @MyBCU @NHSLeadership @TheBMA @RCPhysicians @STSFTrust @mrsbiffy please re tweet please. @Existential_Doc @bigbaddoctor
Glad to have been able to provide some balance in this @DailyMail article today:
‘Maintaining a healthy lifestyle in terms of diet, exercise and avoidance of smoking are likely to have the biggest effect in reducing risk to fertility.’
dailymail.co.uk/health/artic…
The #FertilityPreservation event of the year 💃🕺
Register now:
👇
britishfertilitysociety.org.…
Have you signed up for the “Clinical Frontiers in Fertility Preservation” conference in London?? ….7 weeks to go. Fantastic line up of speakers tinyurl.com/3vvbefct @RodTMitchell @AllanPacey @drsashahoward @profdicanderson @EphiaYasmin @BritFertSoc 27-28th November 2025
Day 2 of this @ESHRE Campus Workshop on #FertilityPreservation in benign conditions. Next up FP in #Endrometriosis followed by Ovarian Tissue Cryopreservation. We are in for some good discussion 😊
