Biography

Jackson is Professor of Reproductive Science at the University of Birmingham and HFEA Person Responsible and Science Lead at Birmingham Women’s Fertility Centre. Across both he is Director of The Centre for Human Reproductive Science (ChRS).
A Biologist and Andrologist by training, he has a strong belief in placing care for the patient at the heart of how services are delivered. As part of this he is keen to emphasise the importance of the male partner and sperm health in conception, miscarriage and ongoing child health.
Jackson created the UK fertility preservation pathway for servicemen with traumatic genital injuries, for which he was awarded an MBE and named Health Care Scientist of 2014 by the NHS Chief Scientific Officer.
Jackson is the past Chair of the Association of Reproductive and Clinical Scientists (ARCS) and a past Coordinator for ESHRE SIG Andrology, he also leads the UK ESHRE – BAS Basic Semen Analysis Course.
Jackson’s research focuses upon fostering multi-disciplinary collaboration to examine the physiology of how the female reproductive tract selects sperm, how sperm modulate the environment of the tract and the exploitation of both these phenomena in assisted conception. The team he leads at ChRS have most recently been noted for their work on sperm flagellar capture and the 'FAST' software as well as clinical trials including HABSelect, pAToMiUM, and most recently UNiTY (a newly commissioned NIHR trial of IUI vs IVF in Unexplained infertility).