DRA. CARMEN RUBIO

Trained in Science and Embryology in the University of Valencia, Spain, Dr Carmen Rubio specialized in cytogenetic studies in human reproduction, partly in the University of Barcelona. She completed her PhD in the field of Reproductive Genetics and post-doctoral research included research in male and female meiosis at the laboratory of Drs. Patricia Hunt and Terry Hassold (Washington State University, USA). She has published more than 100 papers in the main peer-reviewed specialist journals in the field, books chapters as well as numerous lectures at conferences worldwide. She is Board member of the PGDIS society, and the PGT Consortium working group, under the auspices of ESHRE. Currently she is the head of the Embryo Research department at Igenomix (Vitrolife group). Her main research interests are non-invasive approaches of embryo aneuploidy and understanding the origin of cell-free DNA in the culture medium.