before moving into health tech, dr stephanie kuku was a gynaecologist also researching women's cancersk of the concept of creating therapeutics to delay menopause? delaying menopause might mean that you are exposing the body to hormones for longer than we are naturally used to, so perhaps we need to think about what the side—effects of that could be. the trouble is that we need really long periods of testing to really see these side—effects. so, whilst initial, preclinical studies might show that delaying the menopause is safe, i think long—term clinical studies in humans will be really important to guarantee the safety and efficacy of therapeutics to delay the menopause. if we had better treatments and more access to hrt, because hrt does work, then perhaps it wouldn't be such a topic of conversation that menopause should be delayed rather than just managed better. i definitely think if there was something along those lines then that would be really encouraging because it could... yeah, it could really, really change some people's lives. and i think, mainly for me, it's been the ferti