Only two northern white rhinos remain. And they're both female.
Sadly, this success story only stretches as far as the southern subspecies of the white rhino.
Suzannah Williams
Associate Professor in Ovarian Physiology, Lead for Ovarian Cryopreservation and Fertility Preservation Research, Lead of Rhino Fertility Project, University of Oxford
Suzannah Williams (BSc Zoology, University of Aberdeen) completed her PhD at the Royal Veterinary College, London. Following her PhD, Suzannah was awarded a Wain Fellowship and a Lalor Fellowship to work in Perth, Australia. She then moved to the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. In 2008, Suzannah moved to the University of Oxford and established her research group in the Dept of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics. In 2011, she moved to the Nuffield Department of Women's and Reproductive Health.
She established the Rhino Fertility Project with the aim of developing techniques to culture rhino ovarian tissue and generate follicles and eggs in vitro.
