Robert Winston

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Baron Winston, Baron Winston, a British academic, medical researcher, broadcaster, and Labour Party politician, Robert Maurice Lipson Winston (born 15 July 1940) is a British academic, researcher, physicist, television presenter, and Labour Party activist.

Early life

Robert Winston was born in London to Laurence Winston and Ruth Winston-Fox, and he was raised as an Orthodox Jew. His mother was Mayor of Southgate, the former Borough of Southgate. Winston's father died as a result of medical negligence when Winston was nine years old. Robert has two younger siblings: Willow Winston, the artist, and Anthony, his brother.

Winston attended Salcombe Preparatory School from the age of 7, followed by Colet Court and St Paul's School, and then moved to The London Hospital Medical College in 1964 with a degree in medicine and surgery, and was recognized as an expert in human fertility. He left clinical medicine and served as a theatre director for a short time, winning the National Directors' Award at the Edinburgh Festival in 1969.

Personal life

Winston married Lira Helen Feigenbaum in 1973. They had three children, Joel, Tanya, and Ben, who is a film and TV producer and director. Lady Winston died on December 16, 2021. Winston is a fan of Arsenal Football Club. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a former vice president of the Royal College of Music, a member of the MCC's Garrick Club, and London's Athenaeum Club. He owns a 1930s Bentley.

Winston was a council member of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund and Cancer Research UK, and he served as a member of the Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council, where he chaired the Societal Issues Panel from 2013 to 2013. He has given many public lectures a year on science and education, as well as helping to increase science literacy and education by establishing the Reach Out Laboratory in Imperial College, which brings schoolchildren of all ages into the university to do practical science and discuss the topics that science and technology advance. He is the ambassador for Imperial College's Outreach Program, visiting universities around the country to address scientific and career aspirations with students.

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Medical career

In 1970 as a Wellcome Research Fellow, Winston joined Hammersmith Hospital as a registrar. In 1975, he became an associate professor at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. He served as a scientific advisor to the World Health Organisation's human reproduction program from 1975 to 1977. In 1977, he began a career as a consultant and Reader at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School (based at Hammersmith Hospital).

He returned to the United Kingdom in 1980 to head the IVF service at Hammersmith Hospital, which pioneered several advances in this field. He was Dean of the Institute of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in London until its 1997 merger with Imperial College. He was Director of NHS Research and Development at the Hammersmith Hospital Trust until 1994. Winston MacDonald, a Professor of Fertility Studies at Hammersmith, was one of the pioneers of pre-implantation genetic testing to detect human embryo abnormalities, as well as early research into gene expression in human embryos. He invented tubal microsurgery and several methods in reproductive surgery, including sterilization reversal. In 1979, he performed the world's first Fallopian tubal transplant, but in vitro fertilisation was later superseded. His research group pioneered pre-implantation diagnosis, allowing embryo screening of human embryos to identify numerous genetic disorders in 1990, together with Alan Handyside.

From 2004 to 2005, he served as the president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. Winston and Carol Readhead of the California Institute of Reproductive and Developmental Biology carried out male germ cell stem cells and techniques for their genetic modification at Imperial College London's Institute of Reproductive and Developmental Biology. He has published over 300 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals. He was promoted to a new chair at Imperial College, as Professor of Science and Society, and he is also an emeritus professor of Fertility Studies. He served as chairman of the Institute of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Trust and chaired the Women-for-Women Appeal. In 1997, the Genesis Research Trust, which has raised over £80 million for study into reproductive disorders, was renamed the Genesis Research Trust. He was the Chancellor of Sheffield Hallam University from 2001 to 2018.

Winston is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci), an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (FRCOG) and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons (FRCPS Glasg), and a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (FRCPS Glasg). Honorary doctorates from twenty-three universities. He is a trustee of the UK Stem Cell Foundation. He is a patron of The Liggins Institute, University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Winston has a skepticism about fertility therapy's commercialization. Ineffective treatments have resulted in great sadness among couples, and he's concerned that so many drugs for the symptom of infertility are administered before proper investigation and diagnosis have been made. He is also skeptical about the effectiveness of current techniques for embryo screening human embryos in order to determine their viability.

Winston has described child resignment surgery as "mutilation" and has stated that "we can remove portions of our body and change our silhouette, but you can't change your sex because your genes are embedded in your genes in every cell of your body."

Media career

Winston was the host of many BBC television shows, including Your Life in Their Hands, Making Babies, The Secret Life of Twins, Child of Our Time, Human Instinct, Frontiers of Medicine, and the BAFTA award-winning Human Body. He also wrote The Story of God, an orthodox Jew with a orthodox background, debating religious convictions and the role of faith in a scientific age.

He hosted Walking with Cavemen, a major BBC series that featured some controversial views about early men, but was endorsed by respected anthropologists and scientists. According to one, Homo sapiens had a uniquely developed imagination that enabled them to survive.

In 2005, Winston's documentary Threads of Life received the international science film award in Paris. Child Against All Odds, a BBC series, delves into ethical issues raised by IVF therapy. In 2008, he told Super Doctors about the right to make everyday in frontier medicine.

Winston performed in the television series Play It Again, in which he learned to play the saxophone, despite not having played a musical instrument since the age of 11, when he discovered the recorder.

He has appeared on many BBC Radio 4 shows as a fertility consultant. He has regularly appeared on The Wright Stuff as a panelist, as well as several talk show shows such as Have I Got News For You, This Morning, The One Show, and many political shows such as Question Time and Any Questions. Winston is included in the Symphony of Science episode Ode to the Brain.

Jamie's Dream School, an American television show, also took part in the 2011 film Jamie's Dream School. Winston has appeared on The Late Late Show in the United States with James Corden, discussing various amusing scientific experiments.

Political career

Baron Winston, of Hammersmith and Fulham, was born as a life peer on December 18, 1995. He sits on the Labour Party benches in the House of Lords and takes the Labour whip. He appears regularly in the House of Lords on education, science, medicine, and the arts. He was chairman of the House Select Committee on Science and Technology and vice chairman of the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology, which provides recommendations to both Houses of Parliament. He is a member of Labour Friends of Israel.

Winston has made numerous observations regarding the effects of segregated cycle lanes on air quality and emissions in Central London, which are unsubstantiated by evidence. He is a founder of the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation, an advisory board established in 2019 and funded by the Department of Digital Culture, Media, and Sport, which works on ethical and innovative deployment of data-enabled technologies, including artificial intelligence.

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Honours and awards

• Cedric Carter Medal, Clinical Genetics Society, 1993
• Victor Bonney Medal for contributions to surgery, Royal College of Surgeons, 1993
• Gold Medallist, Royal Society of Health, 1998
• Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci), 1998
• British Medical Association Gold Award for Medicine in the Media, 1999
• Michael Faraday Prize, Royal Society, 1999
• Edwin Stevens Medal (the Royal Society of Medicine) 2003
• Aventis Prize, Royal Society 2004
• Al-Hammadi Medal, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh 2005
• Twenty-three honorary doctorates
• The VLV Award for the most outstanding personal contribution to British television in 2004
• Honoured by the City of Westminster at a Marylebone tree planting ceremony in July 2011
• Honorary Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2008.