Roger Gosden

Roger Gordon Gosden (born 23 September 1948) is a British-American physiologist in the field of female reproductive medicine. His scientific research focused on understanding the basic biology of development and senescence of ovaries in women, including mathematically modeling those processes. He did important translational research on ovarian tissue cryopreservation and transplantation.

Early life and education Gosden was born on 23 September 1948 at Ryde on the Isle of Wight, the son of Gordon Gosden and Peggy Gosden, née Butcher. He went to Chislehurst and Sidcup Grammar School in Sidcup, Kent, and then took a BSc from the University of Bristol in 1970.

Scientific career Gosden was a lecturer in physiology at the University of Edinburgh Medical School from 1976 to 1994, His departure from the UK was the hook for an article in The Independent about a wave of scientists emigrating from the UK due to negative public opinion about scientists in the UK. In 1994, Gosden and colleagues announced that they had successfully restored fertility to and achieved two live births in sheep through ovarian tissue autotransplantation, one of which had been frozen then thawed. In collaboration with Sherman Silber, this technique was later extended to women using tissue or the entire ovary transplanted from an identical twin. , there had been 86 live-births and were 9 on-going pregnancies directly as a result of these types of ovarian tissue transplantation.

Gosden was a scientific advisor to Celmatix, Inc., which was founded by his former student. He spoke out against the controversial claims made by OvaScience, a company founded in 2012, that it could help older women conceive using putative oogonial stem cells.

Personal life Gosden married Carole Ann Walsh in 1971 and they had two sons before their divorce in 2003. In the same year he moved to New York to work at Weill Cornell Medicine, where Veeck was director of clinical embryology.

In 2010, they both moved to Williamsburg, Virginia, where they run an independent publishing company, Jamestowne Bookworks, which Gosden opened as outlet for his own works, to allow him to control his own works after a life of assigning copyright to biomedical publishers, and to publish other people's work that interested him.

Honours and lectures Amoroso Lecture (2000) - Society for Reproduction and Fertility Distinguished Scientist Lecture (2001) - American Society for Reproductive Medicine Honorary Fellow (2011) - British Fertility Society Honorary Lifetime Board Member - International Society for Fertility Preservation

Books Biology of menopause: the causes and consequences of ovarian ageing. Academic Press, 1985. (with Yves Aubard) Transplantation of Ovarian and Testicular Tissues. Chapman & Hall, 1996. Cheating Time. W. H. Freeman, 1999. Designing Babies: The Brave New World of Reproductive Technology, 2000. W.H. Freeman. (with S.L. Tan) The Cryobiology of Assisted Reproduction: Gametes and Gonads. Seminars in reproductive medicine. Thieme, 2002. (with Alan Trounson) Biology and Pathology of the Oocyte: Its Role in Fertility and Reproductive Medicine. Cambridge University Press, 2003. (with Togas Tulandi) Preservation of Fertility. Taylor & Francis, 2004. (with Alan Trounson and Ursula Eichenlaub-Ritter) Biology and Pathology of the Oocyte: Role in Fertility, Medicine and Nuclear Reprogramming. Cambridge University Press, 2013.