DENNY SAKKAS B.SC.(HONS.), PH.D.

Biografía

Denny Sakkas PhD serves as Chief Scientific Officer at Boston IVF / IVIRMA North America and as an Associate Professor at the Yale University School of Medicine. He has been involved in the field of In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) since the early 1980s, having gained his Ph. D. under the supervision of Prof. Alan Trounson at Monash University. During this period, he was responsible for disseminating a number of innovations to laboratories around the world, which are used in routine IVF today. He has subsequently headed his own Research Laboratories and been the Scientific/Laboratory Director of IVF units throughout Europe and the USA. Dr. Sakkas has been extensively funded in his research career and continues to work on innovations in the area of human and animal reproduction.

Dr. Sakkas has extensive experience in clinical IVF and reproductive research publishing more than 230 papers in the field of fertilization, early embryo development and male infertility. His papers have been cited over 21,000 times and his H-Index is 78 placing him in the highest group in the field of IVF.

Dr. Sakkas has served as an Associate or Section Editor on the majority of leading reproductive journals and is currently Deputy Editor of Human Reproduction. He also serves as the Legislative & Laboratory Practice Committee Chair for the SRBT and is a member of the ASRM Practice Committee.

Formación

B. Sc.	University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (1983)
B.Sc. Honours	University of Melbourne and Murdoch Research Institute, Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia (1984)
Ph. D.	Center for Early Human Development, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia (1990)

Honores y reconocimientos

Fertility 2023, Belfast, ARCS Bob Edwards Memorial Lecture	2023
Fertility and Sterility Investigator Achievement Award “A diagnosis of diminished ovarian reserve does not impact embryo aneuploidy or live birth rates compared to patients with normal ovarian reserve”	2023
Embryologist of the Year Award (American College of Embryologists)	2022
ASRM First Prize for Best Poster	2021
Honorary member of the Turkish Society of Clinical Embryology	2019
President Elect of the New England Fertility Society	2017
European Society of Human Reproduction, Basic Science Award	2008
British Fertility Society, Edinburgh, Scotland, Best presentation award	2000
Serono Symposium on Implantation in Mammals, Geneva, Switzerland, Best Presentation Award	1993
ASRM Star Award	2001-current

Publicaciones

Effect of time post warming to embryo transfer on human blastocyst metabolism and pregnancy outcome.
Ardestani G, Martins M, Ocali O, Sanchez TH, Gulliford C, Barrett CB, Sakkas D

J Assist Reprod Genet. 2024 Apr 20. doi: 10.1007/s10815-024-03115-8. Online ahead of print.. 2024 doi:

Culture time to optimize embryo cell-free DNA (cfDNA) analysis for frozen-thawed blastocysts undergoing non-invasive preimplantation genetic testing for aneuploidy (niPGT-A).
Ardestani G, Banti M, García-Pascual CM, Navarro-Sánchez L, Van Zyl E, Castellón JA, Simón C, Sakkas D, Rubio C

Fertil Steril. 2024 May 6:S0015-0282(24)00271-1. doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2024.04.037. Online ahead of print.. 2024 doi:

Utilization of Cryopreserved Oocytes in Patients With Poor Ovarian Response After Planned Oocyte Cryopreservation.
Fouks Y, Sakkas D, Bortoletto PE, Penzias AS, Seidler EA, Vaughan DA

JAMA Netw Open. 2024 Jan 2;7(1):e2349722. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.49722.. 2024 doi:

Metabolic imaging of human embryos is predictive of ploidy status but is not associated with clinical pregnancy outcomes: a pilot trial.
Sakkas D, Gulliford C, Ardestani G, Ocali O, Martins M, Talasila N, Shah JS, Penzias AS, Seidler EA, Sanchez T

Hum Reprod. 2024 Jan 9:dead268. doi: 10.1093/humrep/dead268. Online ahead of print. . 2024 doi:

Estimating the number of oocytes to expose to sperm in assisted reproductive technology treatment.
Correia KFB, Vaughan D, Sakkas D, Rossi BV

Fertil Steril. 2024 Feb 23:S0015-0282(24)00127-4. doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2024.02.039. Online ahead of print.. 2024 doi:

Understanding and addressing unexplained infertility: from diagnosis to treatment.
Massarotti C, Fraire-Zamora JJ, Liperis G, Uraji J, Sharma K, Serdarogullari M, Ammar OF, Makieva S, Ali ZE, Romualdi D, Somigliana E, Sakkas D, Dancet E, Mincheva M

Hum Reprod. 2024 Mar 26:deae054. doi: 10.1093/humrep/deae054. Online ahead of print.. 2024 doi:

Standards in semen examination: publishing reproducible and reliable data based on high-quality methodology.
Björndahl L, Barratt CLR, Mortimer D, Agarwal A, Aitken RJ, Alvarez JG, Aneck-Hahn N, Arver S, Baldi E, Bassas L, Boitrelle F, Bornman R, Carrell DT, Castilla JA, Cerezo Parra G, Check JH, Cuasnicu PS, Darney SP, de Jager C, De Jonge CJ, Drevet JR, Drobnis EZ, Du Plessis SS, Eisenberg ML, Esteves SC, Evgeni EA, Ferlin A, Garrido N, Giwercman A, Goovaerts IGF, Haugen TB, Henkel R, Henningsohn L, Hofmann MC, Hotaling JM, Jedrzejczak P, Jouannet P, Jørgensen N, Kirkman Brown JC, Krausz C, Kurpisz M, Kvist U, Lamb DJ, Levine H, Loveland KL, McLachlan RI, Mahran A, Maree L, Martins da Silva S, Mbizvo MT, Meinhardt A, Menkveld R, Mortimer ST, Moskovtsev S, Muller CH, Munuce MJ, Muratori M, Niederberger C, O'Flaherty C, Oliva R, Ombelet W, Pacey AA, Palladino MA, Ramasamy R, Ramos L, Rives N, Roldan ER, Rothmann S, Sakkas D, Salonia A, Sánchez-Pozo MC, Sapiro R, Schlatt S, Schlegel PN, Schuppe HC, Shah R, Skakkebæk NE, Teerds K, Toskin I, Tournaye H, Turek PJ, van der Horst G, Vazquez-Levin M, Wang C, Wetzels A, Zeginiadou T, Zini A

Hum Reprod.. Sep. 2022 doi: 10.1093/humrep/deac189

Fertility technologies and how to optimize laboratory performance to support the shortening of time to birth of a healthy singleton: a Delphi consensus.
Coticchio G, Behr B, Campbell A, Meseguer M, Morbeck DE, Pisaturo V, Plancha CE, Sakkas D, Xu Y, D'Hooghe T, Cottell E, Lundin K

J Assist Reprod Genet. 2021 May;38(5):1021-1043. doi: 10.1007/s10815-021-02077-5. Epub 2021 Feb 18.. 2021 doi:

In vitro fertilization and andrology laboratories in 2030.
Simon C, Campbell A, Gardner DK, Meseguer M, Miller KA, Montag M, Palermo GD, Cheung S, Keating D, Xie P, Rosenwaks Z, Rienzi L, Innocenti F, Cimadomo D, Ubaldi FM, Sakkas D, Tucker MJ, Nel-Themaat L

Fertil Steril. 2021 Jul;116(1):2-3. doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2021.05.089.. 2021 doi:

In vitro fertilization and andrology laboratory in 2030: expert visions.
Campbell A, Gardner DK, Meseguer M, Miller KA, Montag M, Palermo GD, Cheung S, Keating D, Xie P, Rosenwaks Z, Rienzi L, Innocenti F, Cimadomo D, Ubaldi FM, Sakkas D, Tucker MJ, Nel-Themaat L, Simon C

Fertil Steril. 2021 Jul;116(1):4-12. doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2021.05.088.. 2021 doi:

Multicenter prospective study of concordance between embryonic cell-free DNA and trophectoderm biopsies from 1301 human blastocysts.
Rubio C, Navarro-Sánchez L, García-Pascual CM, Ocali O, Cimadomo D, Venier W, Barroso G, Kopcow L, Bahçeci M, Kulmann MIR, López L, De la Fuente E, Navarro R, Valbuena D, Sakkas D, Rienzi L, Simón C

Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2020 Nov;223(5):751.e1-751.e13. doi: 10.1016/j.ajog.2020.04.035. Epub 2020 May 26.. 2020 doi:

Birthweight and the effects of culture media.
Thompson J, Davies M, Pool T, Rienzi L, Nagy PZ, Hardarson T, Sakkas D, Gardner D

Hum Reprod. 2017 Mar 1;32(3):717-718. doi: 10.1093/humrep/dew337.. 2017 doi:

Presentaciones

Sakkas D Atkinson L Borini A Bosch E Bryce C Cattoli M Finet de Bantel A French B Gaitonde S Gerris J Granger S Grzegorczk-Martin V Howles C Somers S Alper M Can "patient-friendly" salivary hormone measurements replace serum monitoring of IVF. Presented at the 33rd annual meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology, Geneva,Switerland, July 1-4,2018

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