Svetlana Rechitsky

Svetlana Rechitsky

Reproductive Genetics Institute, Chicago, IL, USA

Biography
Dr. Svetlana Rechitsky received her PhD in Experimental Molecular Embryology in 1986. She moved to Reproductive Genetics Institute in 1989, where she heads DNA laboratory, which pioneered polar body-based PGD in 1990, and has performed the largest PGD series for single gene disorders, with PGD design for the majority of them developed for the first time. She published more than 70 papers in the field of PGD, including her key contribution to both editions of “Practical Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis”, published by Reproductive Genetics Institute.