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Infertility

Late-stage therapeutic developmentEmerging researchRising momentum
6
Publications
24
Clinical trials
2024
Latest publication

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An analyst briefing on current research, clinical, regulatory and industry activity surrounding this disease.

Clinical Milestones11View all 11
+3 more in the activity timeline below
Activity timeline11

Therapeutic landscape

Therapies with a regulatory footing for this condition, alongside the wider set of agents co-studied with it in the literature.

Approved & established therapies

Approval — In the female: Puregon is indicated for the treatment of female infertility in the follow… (1996)

Clinical trials

18 sponsors · 3 new · 3 completed in the last 12 months (net +3)

The current development programme across all trial phases.

Clinical programme
24
All trials
6
Active
18
Late-stage
6
Completed
Late-stage studies
Recruiting
Recently completed

Regulatory timeline

Drug regulatory events matched to this condition by indication — EMA.

First approvals
1996emaApprovalFollitropin beta· In the female: Puregon is indicated for the treatment of female infertility in the following clinical situations: anovulation (including polycystic ovarian syndrome, PCOS) in women who have been unresponsive to treatment with clomifene citrate; controlled ovarian hyperstimulation to induce the development of multiple follicles in medically assisted reproduction programs (e.g. in-vitro fertilisation / embryo transfer (IVF/ET), gamete intrafallopian transfer (GIFT) and intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI)). In the male: Deficient spermatogenesis due to hypogonadotrophic hypogonadism. source ↗

European Medicines Agency (CC BY 4.0). Events are matched to this condition by drug indication text — approvals/updates for drugs indicated for it, not disease-specific acts.

Research activity

6 papers

Key research shaping understanding of this disease, combining the latest publications with the most influential evidence.

Publications over time
20062024
Most influential
Recent publications
Major themes8
  • Infertility3
  • Aedes1
  • Arabidopsis1
  • Fertility1
  • Medical Oncology1
  • Reproductive Medicine1
  • Vitamin D Deficiency1
  • Wolbachia1
Leading journals6
  • Andrology1
  • BMC medicine1
  • International journal of molecular sciences1
  • Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology1
  • Nature communications1
  • Plant biotechnology journal1
Leading researchers8
  • Alphey L1
  • An X1
  • Ant TH1
  • Beck LN1
  • Blomberg Jensen M1
  • Brennan LV1
  • Deeks A1
  • Dutta S1
Affiliations (unnormalised)6
  • Assam University1
  • Beijing Engineering Laboratory of Main Crop Bio-Tech Breeding1
  • Cardiff University1
  • Copenhagen University Hospital - Herlev and Gentofte1
  • Copenhagen University Hospital - Rigshospitalet1
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute1

Disease profile

A grounded synthesis of the condition — overview, causes, mechanism, risk factors and current standard of care.

Overview

Infertility is a reduced or absent capacity to reproduce. In the supplied literature, it is discussed as a reproductive outcome that can arise in both female and male contexts, including in association with cancer treatment and polycystic ovary syndrome.

Causes

The grounding supports several causes or contributing conditions, including cancer therapy, polycystic ovary syndrome, inflammation of the male reproductive tract, and oxidative stress. The literature also indicates that infertility can be influenced by genetics, metabolism, lifestyle, bodyweight, ethnicity, and environmental factors in the context of PCOS.

Pathophysiology

The supplied abstracts link infertility to disrupted reproductive function through different mechanisms. In male infertility, inflammation and oxidative stress are described as core mechanisms that damage reproductive cells and intracellular components, while PCOS is described as a heterogeneous condition with reproductive and metabolic manifestations that affect fertility.

Risk factors

Risk is increased by polycystic ovary syndrome, obesity, insulin resistance, impaired glucose tolerance, type 2 diabetes mellitus, and adverse cardiovascular risk profiles. In men, acute or chronic inflammation of the genitourinary tract and oxidative stress are associated with infertility, and cancer treatment is also a context in which fertility is at risk.

Current standard of care

The supplied guidance supports fertility preservation methods in people treated for cancer as a management approach related to infertility risk. More broadly, the literature frames treatment at the modality level around fertility preservation and management of underlying reproductive and metabolic conditions, but it does not provide a general standard treatment for infertility itself.

AI-generated summary grounded in MeSH and 3 peer-reviewed sources. Informational only — not medical advice. Generated 2026-07-07.

Reference

Authoritative identity, definition & identifiers.

Defined in MeSH

A reduced or absent capacity to reproduce.

Identifiers
References & data sources
  • Disease identity & definition — NLM Medical Subject Headings (MeSH), public domain
  • Clinical trials — ClinicalTrials.gov (U.S. National Library of Medicine)
  • Research activity — Europe PMC (EMBL-EBI) + OpenAlex-derived paper links
  • Related entities are derived from literature co-mention (studied together) — associative, not causal.