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LimorMan,MD, MMedSci
ShermanJ. Silber,MD
ProfessorofPediatrcsand PublcHeathatBoston UnversityChobanan& AvedsanSchoo ofMedcne Editor-n-Chiefemeritus,The JAMAjournals
DemiánGlujovsky, MDMSc
SeniorScientst,LunenfedTanenbaumResearch nsttute; ScentificDirector TRO VF; Medica Director InsceptonLifebankCordBoodBank
Cinca ProfessorofMedcine andObstetricsand Gynecology Unversityof SouthernCaiforniaKeck Schoo ofMedcne Los Angeles CA USA
Shoukhrat Mitalipov Raoul Orvieto,MD
HeadoftheSanDiego dvsonoftheAtos InstitutesofScience former ProfessorattheSak Institute nLaJola CA,USA
Group Leader, Laboratory for B astoid Development, Inst tute of Molecu ar B otechnology the Austr an Academy of Sciences (IMBA)/ the Vienna B oCenter (VBC), V enna, Austria
AliH.Brivanlou, PhD
Medical D rector and ChiefSc entist The Center for Human Reproduction; Visiting Researcher The Rockefe ler Univers ty, President The Foundation for Reproduct ve Medic ne New York, N Y USA
ProfessorandHeadofInferti ty and VFUnit,Departmentof OBGYN,ShebaMedca Center, Te-AvvUniversty,Israel;CoEditor-in-Chief,Reproductive BioogyandEndocrnoogy
ProfessorandDirector, CenterforEmbryonicCel andGeneTherapy Oregon Health&ScenceUnversity, Portland,OregonUSA
RobertandHarretHelbrunn Professor,DrectorThe BrivanlouLaboratoryof SyntheticEmbryoogyBioogy RockefelerUnversityNew York,NY,USA
Eli Y. Adashi, MD, MS, MA
Rad ation Oncolog st and Researcher Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program, Memor al S oan Ketter ng Cancer Center New York NY, Un ted States; Department of Radiat on Oncology Memorial S oan Kettering Cancer Center
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Pasquale Patrizio,MD ProfessorandChef,Dvsion ReproductiveEndocrinology& nfertiity DepartmentofOBGYN andReproductveSciences, UniverstyofMiamiMilerSchool ofMedcine,Miami FL
AssistantProfessorof ResearchinOB/Gyn Center forReproductveMedcine, WelCornelMedicne New York,NY,USA
Zeev Shoham, MD
Director Reproduct ve Endocr no ogy Un t, Kap an Hosp ta , Rehovot and Professor of Obstetr cs and Gynecology
Hadassah Schoo of Medic ne of Hebrew University Jerusalem, srael
MichelleN. Meyer,PhD,JD
Former Dean of Medicine and B o ogica Sciences Professor of Med cal Science The Warren A pert Med cal School of Brown University
Providence Rhode Island USA Member of the Nat ona Academy of Med cine (former y the nst tute of Med cine) The Assoc at on of Amer can Phys cians and the Amer can Association for the Advancement of Science 2018 recip ent of the ASRM Lifet me Ach evement Award
Assoc ate Professor and Cha r Department of Bioeth cs and Dec s on Sciences in the Col ege of Hea th Sciences and Faculty Co-Director of the Behav oral Insights Team n the Steele Inst tute of Health nnovations at Ge s nger n Danvi le PA USA
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Medica Director The nfertilty CenterofSt Louse,St.Louis, MO,USA
DrectorofClnicalARTand SenorScentist TheCenter forHumanReproduction New York,NewYork,NY,USA
S. Zev Williams, MD, PhD
WendyD HavensAssociate ProfessorofWomen’sHeathand ChiefoftheDivisionof ReproductveEndocrnoogyand nfertltyatColumbaUniversty rvingMedicalCenter NewYork, NY USA
PaoloRinaudo, MD,PhD
Professor of Obstetrics & Gyneco ogy, Reproduct ve Sciences University of Cal forn a, San Francisco (UCSF) San Francisco CA, USA.
DirectorandFounderofFerti ty Argentna BuenosAires, Argentna andScentfc DirectoratCEGYR-Eugingroup, BuenosAres Argentina
David F. Albertini, PhD
Ed tor- n-Chief Journal of Assisted Reproduct on and Genetics (JARG) Senior Visiting Scientist, The Center for Human Reproduct on Stem Cel B ology and Mo ecu ar Embryology Laboratory The Rockefe ler Un vers ty
JacobHanna, Founder AntonioPellicer
Associate Professor and Cha r Department of Bioeth cs and Dec s on Sc ences n the Col ege of Hea th Sciences and Faculty Co-D rector of the Behav oral nsights Team n the Stee e Inst tute of Health Innovations at Geis nger n Danvi e PA USA
Assoc ate Professor and Cha r Department of Bioeth cs and Dec s on Sciences in the Col ege of Hea th Sciences and Faculty Co-Director of the Behav oral Insights Team n the Steele Inst tute of Health nnovations at Ge s nger n Danvi le PA USA
Howard Bauchner,MD Robert Casper,MD Uri Elkayam, MD JuanCarlosIzpisua Belmonte,PhD Samuel F. Bakhoum, MD Norbert Gleicher,MD DavidH.Barad, MD,MScWelcometothe 2023Foundation forReproductive Medicine Conference!
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Invitrogametogenesis, -producingeggsand spermfrombuccal smears:A summaryofthe2023 workshopofthe NationalAcademyof Medicine
12:00
The “Young Investigator Award”
Why PGT-A simply cannot work: Physiological, biological, technical, and mathematical reasons
TheOpening Lecture:Whatis wrongwithcurrent medicalpublishing?
Is the concept of embryo selection in IVF still sustainable?
4:00
Why are we using extended embryo culture to blastocyst for almost all IVF cycles?
LunchSymposium: Transferring chromosomal “abnormal” embryos?
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Anothercritical lookatelective singleembryo transfer
The Breaking News Lecture: Penetrating the black box of implantation
Humanblastoid modelstoadvance ourunderstanding ofearly-stage embryos
Improving organ health and function by programmed rejuvenation
Can non-invasive PGT-A save PGT-A?
Whatisthe pregnancypotential ofunusedand/or discarded “abnormal”embryos afterPGT-A?
CoffeeBreak, PosterViewing& VisittheExhibition
The Daily Summary: Q&A with the day’s faculty
WelcomeReception atthehotel
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Thefunctionof micronucleiin cancercells:Isthere relevancetothe preimplantationstageembryo?
8:30
Germline editing for genetic diseases: The 2023 state-ofthe-arts
Chromosomal analysis of extruded cells/fragments in preimplantationstage embryos
Howfolliclesand oocyteschangewith advancingfemaleage: HighlyIndvidualized EggRetrieval(HIER)as animportantstep toward“precison medicine”
Thepublic sopinion onpolygenicrisk scoring,likelythe nextbigsalesitem ofthe genetictesting industryinIVF
CoffeeBreak, PosterViewing& VisittheExhibition
Invitrogerm cellinduction fromfertileand infertile monozygotic twins
For how long can IVF cycles be safely delayed in cancer patients to pursue fertility preservation?
Lunch Symposium
SYMPOSIUM:Afterall, howeffectiveisoocyte cryopreservationin extendinga woman’sreproductive lifespan?
mtDNA transfer can be horizontal: A mechanism to restore compromised mitochondrial function in embryos?
Doespregnancy affectDNA methylationand, therefore, biologicalage? 9:00 9:30 10:00 10:30 11:00 11:30 12:00
Shining some light into the black box of implantation by using human stem cell-derived blastoids
Some tips and tricks after over 1,000 nuclear transfers in mice
The Daily Summary: Q&A with the day’s faculty
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out of date?
Issuesarisingfor mankindfrom increasing utilizationofIVF
Unintended consequencesof industrializationand commoditizationof IVFpractice: PGT-Aasanexample
WhyIVFdoes nothavetobe asexpensive asitis
DoPCOSphenotypes reallyexistoriswhat wecurrentlydescribe asPCOSreallyan amalgamoftwo distinctgenomic entities?
8:30
“Laboratory-developed tests,” a major FDA loophole for the proliferation of useless and/or harmful “addons” to IVF
Where do we stand with social eggfreezing, now that we know that it is not very effective at older ages?
Societalissues arisingformankind fromincreasing utilizationofIVF
Coffee Break, Poster Viewing & Visit the Exhibition
Unintended consequencesof industrializationand commoditizationof IVFpractice
Can in vivo fragmentation of ovarian tissue and/or intraovarian injection of PRP really be considered “ovarian rejuvenation”?
The Daily Summary: Q&A with the day’s faculty
Closing Remarks