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1 in 5000 women in the UK is born without a womb and hysterectomy is still a common treatment for cervical cancer in women of all ages.

Womb transplantation will give these women the opportunity to have children. We are working towards a future where these women and others who require a womb transplant can realistically access the procedure and go on to have healthy babies.

We have set up our charity, Womb Transplantation UK to help us achieve our goal of developing a practical and safe operation and procedure which will allow women, who were either born without a womb or have lost their womb as a result of illness, to have their own child.

Apart from helping to raise funds to enable us to continue our research, the charity will also work to make more people aware of this currently untreatable infertility which causes so much distress to a large number of women and their partners. Our charity, through this website and its activities, will also show how our research is progressing, the benefits and the progress being made.

The vast majority of the costs of research have been borne by the team members themselves but in these crucial final stages, more help is needed to continue the research and provide an opportunity for this group of women to overcome infertility.

If you would like to help us raise money or make a donation, please click here to do so.

We’ve been acutely aware of the ethical considerations of our work since the very beginning of our research.

Womb transplantation is by no means the only example of non-life saving transplantation procedures and therefore comes with the same ethical concerns as others of the same nature. Read more about the ethical considerations of our research.

Any woman diagnosed with Absolute Uterine/Womb Factor Infertility, between the ages of 24 and 40 (or 42 if her eggs were frozen before the ages of 38).

When womb transplantation becomes a safe and practical procedure, it could benefit thousands of women. Find out more about what would make a potential patient eligible for the womb transplantation procedure aside from age and infertility.