First UK baby born after womb transplant '˜could happen by 2020'
Richard Smith, a consultant gynaecologist who leads researchers at Womb Transplant UK, said he hopes the first transplants will take place before the end of 2018.
Mr Smith said the prospect of a UK woman being helped to conceive with a transplanted womb is ‘truly exciting’.
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Hide Ad‘We have the opportunity to make a real difference,’ he told the Daily Mail.
‘It’s a major step forward for women with absolute uterine infertility.
‘Until now their only options have been adoption or surrogacy, which is not always easy.’
The first successful birth after a womb transplant was achieved in Sweden in 2014.
Doctors in the UK were granted approval to carry out Britain’s first 10 womb transplants in 2015.