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Session 159: Mature Thinking: Innovations in IVM

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Session 159: Mature Thinking: Innovations in IVM

Tuesday 9th September 3pm ET, 8pm BST, 9pm CET

A webinar kindly sponsored by Future Fertility

Moderators:

Moderators:
Prof. Christiani Amorim
Dr. Emna Ouni
Prof. Johan Smitz

Panellists:
Dr. Lan Vuong and Jullin Fjeldstad

Speakers:
Tsubasa Takahashi: Rescue IVM-ICSI: Clinical Applications and Implications
Dr. Flor Sánchez: CAPA-IVM: Advancing beyond traditional IVM.

Round table discussion and Q and A

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Prof. Christiani Amorim


Christiani received her PhD in Veterinary Medicine from the Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, in Brazil, and transitioned from animal reproduction to human fertility in 2007 as a postdoctoral fellow at the Catholique University of Louvain in Belgium, developing alternatives to restore fertility in cancer patients. Currently, she is a professor at the Catholique University of Louvain, where she also serves as head of the Research Pole in Physiopathology of Reproduction. Her group conducts research on ovarian tissue preservation, photodynamic therapy, cell differentiation, and ovarian tissue engineering. Christiani is also an honorary research associate at the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research and Chief Scientific Officer from ProFaM. 

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Dr. Emna Ouni

As a PhD and a bioengineer, Emna Ouni has been particularly enthusiastic and impressed by the perspective of creating artificial organs on demand. But soon, she noticed how much limited our knowledge about the human cells’microenvironment (matrisome/extracellular matrix) is and how it is hampering any attempt of creating biofunctional designs. This is when she chose to make biomimetism her mission.
This mission started by reverse bioengineering the human ovary and developing tailored methods to unravel the proteomics, biomechanics and architecture of the human ovarian matrisome from prepuberty to menopause. This led to providing a first blueprint to leap to the next generation of bio-inspired tissue-engineered ovaries. Her ultimate goal is to carry on this mission and extend it to other tissues and organs to fuse engineering with fundamental research and use multidisciplinary approaches in order to create functional 3D models of human organs for precision medicine, regenerative medical applications and drug discovery.



Prof. Johan Smitz

Professor Johan Smitz MD PhD is based at the Free University Brussels (VUB), Belgium. He graduated as M.D. in 1980 and obtained his specialty in Clinical Pathology/Biochemistry/ Radio-Isotopes in 1986. He sub-specialised in Reproductive Medicine and got his PhD in 1993. In 1986 he has been director of the Endocrine Laboratory of the University Hospital. He became Professor of Endocrine Physiology and Reproductive Medicine in 1997 at VUB. He founded the Follicle Biology (FOBI) Research Laboratory in 1997 and was a member of the Steering Committee of the Centre for Reproductive Medicine at UZ-Brussel. His main activities are directed towards the implementation of innovative techniques related to oocyte and follicle biology from the research laboratory into the clinical activities in ART clinics.

 

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