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 😊
🗞️ New Paper Alert 🗞️ Great to see our review on #ExtracellularVesicles in #Reproduction is now published 🗞️
You can read the full paper for free 👉 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/4257…
Congratulations to @DrMike_Rimmer 👏 Check out his summary of the paper below 👇
Our review, Extracellular Vesicles in Reproductive Physiology and Pathology, is now out open access in Physiological Reviews. EVs carry proteins, lipids and nucleic acids between cells, changing how recipient cells behave.
doi.org/10.1152/physrev.0003…
🗞️ 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:
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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