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EXPERTS
Alan Handyside, Ph.D.
President, Co-Founder
Professor Handyside is an internationally-recognized pioneer and expert in human embryology and preimplantation genetics with an extensive research portfolio, a track record for innovation in single-cell diagnostics, and 20 years of experience in management in the private IVF sector in the UK
Xiaoliang Sunny Xie, Ph.D.
President Elect
Professor Xie is a biophysical chemist. He is the Lee Shau-kee Professor at Peking University. He was the Mallinckrodt Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University until 2018. As a pioneer of single-molecule biophysical chemistry, coherent Raman scattering microscopy, and
Zhihong Yang, D.V.M., Ph.D.
Secretary General, Co-Founder
Professor Yang has worked in the field of assisted reproductive technology in North America for over 25 years with extensive training and research experiences. He is well-known for his pioneering work on clinical studies on Preimplantation Genetic Testing for Aneuploidy (PGT-A) and Time-lapse
James Lin, M.D.
Treasurer, Co-Founder
Dr. Lin, a third generation physician, is a Reproductive Genetic Futurist and Philanthropist. For almost 30 years, Dr. Lin serves as the founder and medical director of the RFC Family of IVF Centers in America. Concurrently, Dr. Lin is also serving as CEO of Incinta Global Premier Reproductiv
Jie Qiao, M.D., Ph.D.
FOUNDING BOARD DIRECTOR
Professor Qiao is the Executive Vice President of Peking University, Director of Peking University Health Science Center, and President of Peking University Third Hospital. Her research focus on the molecular mechanism of human gametogenesis and embryo development, infertility causes and clin
Hefeng Huang, M.D., Ph.D.
FOUNDING BOARD DIRECTOR
Professor Huang is an obstetrician and gynecologist, and also a Chair Professor of Fudan University. She is a pioneer who studied the safety of assisted reproductive technology, made outstanding contributions to the prevention and control of birth defects in China through pre-implantation gen
Dennis Lo, M.D., Ph.D.
FOUNDING BOARD DIRECTOR
Professor Lo is the Director of the Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He discovered the presence of cell-free fetal DNA in maternal plasma in 1997. He has pioneered a number of key technologies for noninvasive prenatal testing and cancer liquid b
Carlos Simón, M.D., Ph. D.
BOARD DIRECTOR
Professor Simón is Board Certified and Full Professor of Ob/Gyn at the University of Valencia, Spain; Adjunct Professor, Department of Ob/Gyn, Baylor College of Medicine, USA; Head of the Scientific Board of Igenomix; and Senior Lecturer PT, BIDMC at Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA
Yanping Kuang, M.D., Ph.D.
FOUNDING BOARD DIRECTOR
Professor Kuang is the main founder and director of the Department of Assisted Reproduction at Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital affiliated with Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine. He is the Chairman of the Professional Committee on Reproductive Health of China Association of Reh
Richard Scott, M.D., HCLD
BOARD DIRECTOR
Professor Scott is a board-certified reproductive endocrinologist, embryologist, andrologist, and molecular genetics researcher. He is a Founding Partner of IVIRMA Global. He received his medical degree from the University of Virginia Medical School, Charlottesville, Virginia, performed his o
Angelina Beltsos, M.D.
BOARD DIRECTOR
Professor Beltsos is the CEO and Chief Medical Officer of Vios Fertility Institute. She is double board-certified in Obstetrics and Gynecology and in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility (REI), practicing medicine since 1991. She completed her residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at L
Alan Thornhill, Ph.D.
FOUNDING BOARD DIRECTOR
Professor Thornhill is an honorary Professor in Reproductive Genetics at the University of Kent, Canterbury, UK, and was formerly Deputy Chair of the ESHRE PGD Consortium and Chair of Alpha, Scientists in Reproductive Medicine. Between 2009 and 2015, Alan served as a Professional Member of th
Ge Lin, M.D., Ph.D.
FOUNDING BOARD DIRECTOR
Professor Lin is a Vice-Director of the Key Laboratory of Human Stem Cell and Reproductive Engineering, National Health Commission of China. He has been the President of Reproductive and Genetic Hospital of CITIC-XIANGYA since 2017. His research interests include human embryology, PGT, and hu
Luca Generoli, M.D., Ph.D.
BOARD DIRECTOR
Professor Gianaroli has been a specialist in Reproductive Medicine since the end of the Seventies. He is the Scientific Director of S.I.S.Me.R. (Italian Society for the Study of Reproductive Medicine) and holds the position of Scientific Director of I.I.A.R.G., the International Institutes of
Johan Smitz, M.D., Ph.D.
BOARD DIRECTOR
Professor Smitz is an Emeritus Professor at the Free Universiteit Brussel (VUB, Brussels, Belgium), an Honorary Professor at the University of San Marcos (Lima, Peru) and a Visiting Professor and Director of the Laboratory for Reproductive Biology and Oncofertility at the University Cayetano
Keiichi Kato, M.D., Ph.D.
BOARD DIRECTOR
Dr. Kato is a board-certified specialist in reproductive medicine and obstetrics and gynecology. He is a General Director of Kato Ladies Clinic, Tokyo, Japan since 2013. He advocates the use of a natural cycle and minimal stimulation IVF to deliver safe, effective, and patient-friendly ART. I
Catherine Racowsky, Ph.D., HCLD
ADVISOR
Professor Racowsky is Director of the IVF Laboratory at Brigham & Women’s Hospital in Boston MA and Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Harvard Medical School where she is on the promotions and retentions committee. She has served on the Society of Assisted Reproductive Techno
Taosheng Huang, M.D., Ph.D.
FOUNDING BOARD DIRECTOR
Professor Huang is the Chief of Genetics for Pediatrics at SUNY Buffalo, Director of Genetics & Metabolism at Oishei Children’s Hospital. His research focuses on discovering novel genes associated with mitochondrial diseases. In recent years, his group has identified many nuclear ge
Yiping Shen, Ph.D.
FOUNDING BOARD DIRECTOR
Professor Shen, Ph.D., FACMG, FABMGG, is an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School and an associate at the Division of Genetics and Genomics, Boston Children's Hospital, a Co-Director of the Harvard Medical School Genetic Training Program course. He is a Fellow of the American College
Fuchou Tang, Ph.D.
COMMITTEE CO-CHAIR
Professor Tang is a full professor at BIOPIC, College of Life Sciences, Peking University. He is also Associate Director of Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Genomics (ICG). His lab focuses on the epigenetic regulation of gene expression network during human early embryonic development a
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