ArticleTowards a single embryo transfer
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Dr David K Gardner was awarded his D.Phil. from the University of York in 1987 under the supervision of Professor Henry Leese. Following a postdoctoral fellowship with Professor John Biggers at Harvard Medical School, he moved to Australia in 1989 to work with Professor Alan Trounson at Monash University where he founded the Embryo Physiology Laboratory. In 1997 Dr Gardner moved to Denver, USA, to become the Scientific Director of the Colorado Centre for Reproductive Medicine. Dr Gardner is
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Dr David K Gardner was awarded his D.Phil. from the University of York in 1987 under the supervision of Professor Henry Leese. Following a postdoctoral fellowship with Professor John Biggers at Harvard Medical School, he moved to Australia in 1989 to work with Professor Alan Trounson at Monash University where he founded the Embryo Physiology Laboratory. In 1997 Dr Gardner moved to Denver, USA, to become the Scientific Director of the Colorado Centre for Reproductive Medicine. Dr Gardner is also the Scientific Director of Houston IVF, an Adjunct Professor at Colorado State University, and Visiting Professor at the University of Zhongshan, China. His research has focused on the physiology, metabolism and culture of the mammalian preimplantation embryo. Dr Gardner has edited six books and authored over 100 papers and book chapters. David has four fully developed blastocysts with his wife Jackie in Colorado.
Paper based on contribution presented at the Serono Symposium ‘Toward Optimizing ART: a Tribute to Howard and Georgeanna Jones’ in Williamsburg, VA, USA, April 2002.