June 26, 2009

IVF Mix-Ups and pre-ESHRE Question Time

Speakers:
Dr Allan Pacey, Senior Lecturer in Andrology, University of Sheffield
Tony Rutherford, Chair, British Fertility Society
Marta Jansa, Consultant Embryologist, Kings College Hospital
Dr Chris O’Toole, Head of Research Regulation, HFEA
Dr Charlotte Augst, Policy Manager, HFEA

On the eve of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE) annual conference, the biggest of its kind in Europe, the Science Media Centre invited four leading fertility experts to brief journalists on IVF mix-ups, where errors occur during IVF cycles (eg the wrong sperm used to fertilise an egg, or vice-versa) and to answer their questions on other topical controversies in fertility science.

Click here to go to the ESHRE conference website.