Our History of Excellence

Genetics & IVF Institute was the original U.S. 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.

GIVF has been responsible for numerous key innovations to help hopeful parents have healthy pregnancies. Achievements since our founding:

• The first U.S. center to introduce non-surgical, ultrasound-guided egg retrieval for IVF.
• Achieved America's first frozen embryo twin birth.
• The first American center to publicly report pregnancies using ICSI (intracytoplasmic sperm injection).
• The first to clinically test patients for certain mutations which are associated with hereditary breast cancer.
• Developed the technique of non-surgical sperm aspiration for improved treatment of male infertility.
• The first in the world to initiate ovarian cryopreservation for patients with cancer.
• Developed a method using preimplantation genetic testing to prevent Huntington's disease.
• Developed a new sperm separation technique for preconception gender selection called MicroSort®.