Forty years of IVF

Craig Niederberger; Antonio Pellicer; Jacques Cohen; David K Gardner; Gianpiero D Palermo; Claire L O'Neill; Stephen Chow; Zev Rosenwaks; Ana Cobo; Jason E Swain; William B Schoolcraft; René Frydman; Lauren A Bishop; Davora Aharon; Catherine Gordon; Erika New; Alan Decherney; Seang Lin Tan; Richard J Paulson; James M Goldfarb; Mats Brännström; Jacques Donnez; Sherman Silber; Marie-Madeleine Dolmans; Joe Leigh Simpson; Alan H Handyside; Santiago Munné; Cristina Eguizabal; Nuria Montserrat; Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte; Alan Trounson; Carlos Simon; Togas Tulandi; Linda C Giudice; Robert J Norman; Aaron J Hsueh; Yingpu Sun; Neri Laufer; Ronit Kochman; Talia Eldar-Geva; Bruno Lunenfeld; Diego Ezcurra; Thomas D'Hooghe; Bart C J M Fauser; Basil C Tarlatzis; David R Meldrum; Robert F Casper; Human M Fatemi; Paul Devroey; Daniela Galliano; Matts Wikland; Mark Sigman; Richard A Schoor; Marc Goldstein; Larry I Lipshultz; Peter N Schlegel; Alayman Hussein; Robert D Oates; Robert E Brannigan; Heather E Ross; Guido Pennings; Susan C Klock; Simon Brown; André Van Steirteghem; Robert W Rebar; Andrew R LaBarbera

doi:10.1016/j.fertnstert.2018.06.005

Forty years of IVF

Fertil Steril. 2018 Jul 15;110(2):185-324.e5. doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2018.06.005.

Authors

Craig Niederberger¹, Antonio Pellicer², Jacques Cohen³, David K Gardner⁴, Gianpiero D Palermo⁵, Claire L O'Neill⁵, Stephen Chow⁵, Zev Rosenwaks⁵, Ana Cobo⁶, Jason E Swain⁷, William B Schoolcraft⁸, René Frydman⁹, Lauren A Bishop¹⁰, Davora Aharon¹¹, Catherine Gordon¹², Erika New¹³, Alan Decherney¹⁰, Seang Lin Tan¹⁴, Richard J Paulson¹⁵, James M Goldfarb¹⁶, Mats Brännström¹⁷, Jacques Donnez¹⁸, Sherman Silber¹⁹, Marie-Madeleine Dolmans²⁰, Joe Leigh Simpson²¹, Alan H Handyside²², Santiago Munné²³, Cristina Eguizabal²⁴, Nuria Montserrat²⁵, Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte²⁶, Alan Trounson²⁷, Carlos Simon²⁸, Togas Tulandi¹⁴, Linda C Giudice²⁹, Robert J Norman³⁰, Aaron J Hsueh³¹, Yingpu Sun³², Neri Laufer³³, Ronit Kochman³³, Talia Eldar-Geva³⁴, Bruno Lunenfeld³⁵, Diego Ezcurra³⁶, Thomas D'Hooghe³⁷, Bart C J M Fauser³⁸, Basil C Tarlatzis³⁹, David R Meldrum⁴⁰, Robert F Casper⁴¹, Human M Fatemi⁴², Paul Devroey⁴³, Daniela Galliano⁴⁴, Matts Wikland⁴⁵, Mark Sigman⁴⁶, Richard A Schoor⁴⁷, Marc Goldstein⁴⁸, Larry I Lipshultz⁴⁹, Peter N Schlegel⁵⁰, Alayman Hussein⁵¹, Robert D Oates⁵², Robert E Brannigan⁵³, Heather E Ross⁵⁴, Guido Pennings⁵⁵, Susan C Klock⁵⁶, Simon Brown⁵⁷, André Van Steirteghem⁵⁸, Robert W Rebar⁵⁹, Andrew R LaBarbera⁶⁰

Affiliations

¹ Department of Urology, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine, Chicago, IL; Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Engineering, Chicago, IL; Co-Editor in Chief, Fertility and Sterility.
² Co-Editor in Chief, Fertility and Sterility; Instituto Valenciano de Infertilidad (IVI), Rome, Italy; Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria La Fe, Valencia, Spain.
³ Althea Science and ART Institute of Washington, Hudson, NY.
⁴ School of BioSciences, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia; Melbourne IVF, East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
⁵ The Ronald O. Perelman and Claudia Cohen Center for Reproductive Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY.
⁶ IVI RMA, Valencia, Spain.
⁷ CCRM IVF Network, Lone Tree, CO.
⁸ CCRM IVF Network, Lone Tree, CO; Colorado Center for Reproductive Medicine, Lone Tree, CO.
⁹ Hospital Foch, Suresnes Grand, Paris, France.
¹⁰ Program in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD.
¹¹ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY.
¹² Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of California Medical Center, Orange, CA.
¹³ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of South Florida Health, Tampa, FL.
¹⁴ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
¹⁵ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, USC Fertility, University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA.
¹⁶ Department of Reproductive Biology, Case Western Reserve School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH.
¹⁷ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden; Stockholm IVF, Stockholm, Sweden.
¹⁸ Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium; Société de Recherche pour l'Infertilité (SRI), Brussels, Belgium.
¹⁹ Infertility Center of St. Louis, St. Louis, MO.
²⁰ Pôle de Gynécologie, Institut de Recherche Expérimentale et Clinique (IREC), Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium; Gynecology Department, Cliniques Universitaires Saint Luc, Brussels, Belgium.
²¹ Department of Biomedical Engineering, Florida International University, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Miami, FL.
²² London Women's Clinic, London, UK; School of Biosciences, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK.
²³ Cooper Genomics, Livingston, NJ; Overture Life, New York, NY.
²⁴ Cell Therapy and Stem Cell Group, Basque Center for Blood Transfusion and Human Tissues, Galdakao, Spain.
²⁵ Pluripotent Stem Cells and Activation of Endogenous Tissue Programs for Organ Regeneration (PR Lab), Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), Barcelona, Spain.
²⁶ Gene Expression Laboratory, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA.
²⁷ Monash University and Hudson Institute of Medical Research, Clayton, Victoria, Australia.
²⁸ Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Valencia University & INCLIVA, Valencia, Spain; Igenomix, Parc Cientific Valencia University, Valencia, Spain; Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA; Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX.
²⁹ Center for Reproductive Sciences, Center for Reproductive Health, University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, CA.
³⁰ Robinson Research Institute, School of Medicine, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia; FertilitySA, Adelaide, South Australia.
³¹ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA.
³² Reproductive Medical Centre, First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China.
³³ Hadassah Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel.
³⁴ Hadassah Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel; Shaare Zedek Medical Centers, Jerusalem, Israel.
³⁵ Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel.
³⁶ EMD Serono, Rockland, MA, a company of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany.
³⁷ Global Medical Affairs Fertility, Research and Development, Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany; Research Group Reproductive Medicine, Department of Development and Regeneration, Organ Systems, Group Biomedical Sciences, KU Leuven (University of Leuven), Leuven, Belgium; Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, Yale University Medical School, New Haven, CT.
³⁸ Department of Reproductive Medicine, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
³⁹ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology & Reproductive Medicine, School of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.
⁴⁰ Reproductive Partners San Diego, San Diego, CA; Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, University of California, San Diego, California.
⁴¹ Division of Reproductive Sciences, University of Toronto, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada; TRIO Fertility, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
⁴² IVIRMA Middle-East, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
⁴³ Centre for Reproductive Medicine, Free University of Brussels, Brussels, Belgium; MFAKIH IVF, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
⁴⁴ Instituto Valenciano de Infertilidad (IVI), Rome, Italy; Fundación IVI, Valencia, Spain.
⁴⁵ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.
⁴⁶ Division of Urology, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI; Lifespan, Providence, RI.
⁴⁷ Private Practice Urology, Old Westbury, NY; Department of Surgery/Urology, New York Institute of Technology, College of Osteopathic Medicine, Smithtown, NY.
⁴⁸ Department of Reproductive Medicine and Urology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY.
⁴⁹ Division of Male Reproductive Medicine and Surgery, Scott Department of Urology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas.
⁵⁰ Department of Urology, James Buchanan Brady Foundation and Cornell Reproductive Medicine Institute, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY.
⁵¹ Department of Urology and Andrology, Minia University, Al Minya, Egypt.
⁵² Department of Urology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA.
⁵³ Department of Urology, Division of Male Reproductive Medicine and Men's Heath, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL.
⁵⁴ Ross & Zuckerman, LLP, Northbrook, IL.
⁵⁵ Department of Philosophy and Moral Sciences, Bioethics Institute Ghent, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
⁵⁶ Departments of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Psychiatry, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL.
⁵⁷ ESHRE Central Office, Grimbergen, Belgium.
⁵⁸ Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium.
⁵⁹ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine, Kalamazoo, MI; Former Executive Director (2003-2013), American Society for Reproductive Medicine, Birmingham, AL.
⁶⁰ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH; Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine, Birmingham, AL; Former Scientific Director/Chief Scientific Officer (2004-2016), American Society for Reproductive Medicine, Birmingham, AL.

PMID: 30053940
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2018.06.005

Abstract

This monograph, written by the pioneers of IVF and reproductive medicine, celebrates the history, achievements, and medical advancements made over the last 40 years in this rapidly growing field.

Keywords: History; IVF; controlled ovarian stimulation; laboratory; male reproduction.

Publication types

Historical Article
Review

MeSH terms

Female
Fertilization in Vitro / history*
Fertilization in Vitro / methods
Fertilization in Vitro / trends*
History, 20th Century
History, 21st Century
Humans
Infant, Newborn
Male
Ovulation Induction / history
Ovulation Induction / methods
Ovulation Induction / trends
Pregnancy
Reproductive Medicine / history*
Reproductive Medicine / methods
Reproductive Medicine / trends*