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History of Excellence
The Genetics & IVF Institute was the original American center to integrate high-technology infertility and genetic services. Our vast experience means that we can offer you an extraordinarily talented group of physicians and laboratory experts, some of whom are former faculty members at leading universities or the National Institutes of Health. Because of these outstanding people, since its founding in 1984 the Genetics & IVF Institute has been responsible for numerous key innovations to help couples have healthy babies and to improve the health of women. A partial list follows:
- Genetics & IVF was the first U.S. center to introduce non-surgical ultrasound guided egg retrieval for IVF.
- Genetics & IVF achieved America's first frozen embryo twin birth.
- Genetics & IVF was the first American center to publicly report pregnancies using ICSI (intracytoplasmic sperm injection).
- Genetics & IVF was the first to medically test patients for certain mutations which cause hereditary breast cancer.
- Genetics & IVF developed the important technique of non-surgical sperm aspiration for improved treatment of male infertility.
- Genetics & IVF was the first in the world to initiate ovarian cryopreservation for patients with cancer.
- Genetics & IVF discovered a method using preimplantation genetic testing for the prevention of Huntington disease.
- Genetics & IVF developed a highly important new sperm separation technique for preconceptual gender selection called MicroSort®, which is currently undergoing clinical testing and has already produced hundreds of births.
- The services to patients at the Genetics & IVF Institute have been the subject of many articles in major newspapers, such as the New York Times, and on numerous television and radio news shows.
- In fact, the Genetics & IVF Institute has accomplished the extraordinary record of over 500 peer-reviewed original medical articles and abstracts. These many new accomplishments and sustained level of achievement are unmatched by any private infertility program in the United States. You can be certain that in choosing Genetics & IVF Institute to help build your family, you are entrusting your care to a team with proven leadership and a world-wide reputation for excellence and innovation.
Genetics & IVF Institute has vast experience with complex infertility and genetic problems and has long served numerous patients with the most challenging types of reproductive difficulties. Many famous celebrities, professionals, business leaders, and politicians have come to the Genetics & IVF Institute from around the world. They choose to trust us with their care because they know of our outstanding reputation and experience, medical and scientific achievements, integrity, technical excellence, and deep commitment to the personal success of each and every patient. Physicians throughout the United States refer patients to us for the same reasons, and also because they know that Genetics & IVF has an extraordinary range of specialized services, including a huge number of top-quality egg donors, world's largest group of sperm banks, one of America's most active preimplantation genetics testing centers, and more.
- Today, GIVF is continuing its pioneering work. The innovative techniques for egg vitrification (freezing) to freeze unfertilized eggs so that they can later be thawed and inseminated is now available. Truly effective egg vitrification is a significant breakthrough in infertility treatment, allowing women to extend their fertility by freezing eggs when they are young for use when they are older.
You can have absolute confidence in your choice of the Genetics & IVF Institute. Please visit our Patient Comments page.
Please call 800-552-4363 or click to schedule an appointment with one of our physicians, and begin to experience the difference that the Genetics & IVF Institute can make in your life and that of your future family.
Life begins at the Genetics & IVF Institute.
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