IVF World Firsts
1978
World's first IVF baby
1981
First male factor patients treated1982
Britain's first IVF twins1982
World's first baby delivered after intrauterine sperm/egg transfer1984
Britain's first IVF triplets1984
World's first baby from blastocyst transfer1987
World's first babies (twins) born after frozen embryo donated eggs1988
World's first baby born after home monitoring of fertility treatment1989
Britain's first babies (twins) born after host surrogacy1990
World's first baby born after micro-injection1992
Britain's first SUZI treatment (sub-zonal insemination) baby1992
Britain's first "sugar drop" frozen embryo baby (vitrification)1994
World's first CISS baby1994
Britain's first triplets born after host surrogacy1996
World's first testicular spermatid baby1996
Britain's first pregnancy using maternal host grandmother1997
World's first pre-cancer treatment recovery of testicular material from a pre-pubescent boy to preserve his fertility1999
World's first IVF baby for cystic fibrosis patient1999
World's first baby for man using Multiple Ejaculate Resuspension Centrifugation (MERC)2001
UK's first licence awarded for PGD and HLA tissue typing2002
Embryo chromosome (aneuploidy) screening licence awarded2004
First NHS funded treatment for PGD and HLA tissue typing2007
Europe's first baby born following embryo screening using Comparative Genomic Hybridisation (CGH)2008
WOrld's first pregnancy using Array CGH2009
Birth of World's first baby following array CGH screening2010
UK's first baby born through PGD for HLA tissue matching2010
UK's first baby to be born using blastocyst chromosome screening2010
First multi-factorial genetic chromosome tissue typing and translocation analysis of embryos in an IVF cycle2010
World first screening for the AnnexinV M2 haplotype mutation for miscarriage in IVF (C4M2)2011
First UK birth using CAREmaps2011
World first births following C4M2 screening during IVF2015
The first book published on time lapse embryology2016
World's first publications on C4M2 screening during IVF