Carmen Rubio, PhD.Trained in Science and Embryology at the University of Valencia, Spain, Dr Carmen Rubio specialized in cytogenetic studies in human reproduction, partly at the University of Barcelona. She completed her PhD in the field of Reproductive Genetics and post-doctoral research included research in male and female meiosis at the laboratory of Drs. Patricia Hunt and Terry Hassold (Washington State University, USA). She has published more than 100 papers in the main peer-reviewed specialist journals in the field, books chapters as well as numerous lectures at conferences worldwide. She is appointed as lecturer in post-graduate courses in Reproductive Genetics, supervising PhD students, and she is an active member of ESHRE, ASRM and board member of the PGDIS society. Currently she is the head of the Research & Development department at Igenomix (Vitrolife group). Her main current research interests after 30 years working in this field, are non-invasive approaches of genetic testing, being particularly active in the study of chromosomal abnormalities in the cell-free DNA released into the culture medium as a non-invasive approach for the assessment of embryo viability
