Offering you the best chance of having a baby
No other clinic in the world can match our range of scientific techniques and treatments. IVFAustralia was the first clinic in the Southern Hemisphere to offer advanced technology such as Digital High Magnification of sperm to overcome issues with DNA fragmentation.
The IVFAustralia science team includes more than 50 scientists working in embryology, andrology and pathology. Our in-house laboratories provide embryology and andrology diagnostic services, so you can receive almost all your treatments and testing in one convenient location.
Managing the science behind our success rates
Dr Simon Cooke is the Scientific Director of IVF Australia and is responsible for all of our laboratories in NSW.
He has worked in and managed andrology and embryology laboratories for 20 years, and ensures new and emerging techniques are applied to our clinical embryology and andrology services to continually improve outcomes for our patients.
Embryology
We have four specialist embryology laboratories in Sydney and the Central Coast, all accredited by the Reproductive Technology Accreditation Committee (RTAC) and operating seven days a week.
Our network of embryology laboratories provides a full range of advanced services, including:
- In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF)
- Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection (ICSI)
- Enhanced High magnification of sperm during ICSI
- Embryo culture and assessment
- Embryo cryopreservation
- Assisted hatching
- Polscope microscopy
- PGD, and
- Preparation of surgically collected sperm
Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis
Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis, or PGD, is a method of testing embryos for specific genetic and chromosomal abnormalities, so we can select unaffected embryos prior to implantation and pregnancy. Since its introduction, IVFAustralia’s PGD program has helped hundreds of couples conceive healthy babies through IVF treatment. By only transferring an embryo that has been diagnosed as unaffected or free of a specific disorder, we can maximise the chance of a healthy baby.
At IVFAustralia we can test the embryos in a number of different ways, depending on the particular circumstances. Our new technology, Advanced Embryo Selection, allows us to identify every chromosome, and is a significant advance on conventional PGD technology.
With Advanced Embryo Selection we can accurately select the embryo that is unaffected by a specific disease and will have a better development potential. Over the past year, Advanced Embryo Selection has helped many of our patients conceive after years of unsuccessful IVF treatment.
Andrology
Sperm defects are the most common cause of failure of fertilisation in clinical IVF treatment.
All of our andrology laboratories are NATA and ISO accredited, and provide a full range of analytical services, including semen analysis, sperm antibody testing, and SCSA testing of sperm to determine the DNA integrity.
All andrology laboratories also provide freezing of sperm for use in future ART treatment cycles. They also freeze semen prior to surgery, prior to deployment overseas, or before chemotherapy or radiotherapy. IVFAustralia also has a large donor sperm program, where we recruit and manage sperm donors.
Endocrinology
IVFAustralia’s specialist pathology lab in Greenwich is open seven days a week, and currently performs over 180,000 analyses each year.
This is where we analyse hormone, serology and virology blood tests for all our patients, and with dedicated scientists using the very latest equipment; we are able to return results to your fertility specialist highly efficiently.
Our laboratory provides the following tests on site, and new tests are being added to the service all the time:
- Hormones: FSH, LH, Estradiol, Progesterone, HCG, Testosterone, Sex Hormone Binding Globulin, Prolactin, Free T4 and TSH.
- Serological testing: Hepatitis BsAg, HCV, HIV, Rubella, Varicella and Syphilis.
- Specialist tests: AMH
