IVF World Firsts
1978
World's first IVF baby

1981
First male factor patients treated

1982
Britain's first IVF twins

1982
World's first baby delivered after intrauterine sperm/egg transfer

1984
Britain's first IVF triplets

1984
World's first baby from blastocyst transfer

1987
World's first babies (twins) born after frozen embryo donated eggs

1988
World's first baby born after home monitoring of fertility treatment

1989
Britain's first babies (twins) born after host surrogacy

1990
World's first baby born after micro-injection

1992
Britain's first SUZI treatment (sub-zonal insemination) baby

1992
Britain's first "sugar drop" frozen embryo baby (vitrification)

1994
World's first CISS baby

1994
Britain's first triplets born after host surrogacy

1996
World's first testicular spermatid baby

1996
Britain's first pregnancy using maternal host grandmother

1997
World's first pre-cancer treatment recovery of testicular material from a pre-pubescent boy to preserve his fertility

1999
World's first IVF baby for cystic fibrosis patient

1999
World's first baby for man using Multiple Ejaculate Resuspension Centrifugation (MERC)

2001
UK's first licence awarded for PGD and HLA tissue typing

2002
Embryo chromosome (aneuploidy) screening licence awarded

2004
First NHS funded treatment for PGD and HLA tissue typing

2007
Europe's first baby born following embryo screening using Comparative Genomic Hybridisation (CGH)

2008
WOrld's first pregnancy using Array CGH

2009
Birth of World's first baby following array CGH screening

2010
UK's first baby born through PGD for HLA tissue matching

2010
UK's first baby to be born using blastocyst chromosome screening

2010
First multi-factorial genetic chromosome tissue typing and translocation analysis of embryos in an IVF cycle

2010
World first screening for the AnnexinV M2 haplotype mutation for miscarriage in IVF (C4M2)

2011
First UK birth using CAREmaps

2011
World first births following C4M2 screening during IVF

2015
The first book published on time lapse embryology

2016
World's first publications on C4M2 screening during IVF
