Laura Rienzi
Adjunct Professor of Biotechnology in Assisted Reproduction, University of Urbino, Italy
Director of the Scientific Executive Committee of GeneraLife and co-founder of Genera
Senior Clinical Embryologist
With 30 years’ experience in human assisted reproduction technologies, pre-implantation genetic testing and cryopreservation of human oocytes, sperm and embryos, Laura Rienzi is the Director of the Scientific Executive Committee of the GeneraLife network of IVF clinics in Europe.
Laura obtained her degree in Biology magna cum laude at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, University of Rome, a Master degree and a course specialization in Reproductive Medicine at the University of Padua. Since 2016, she is Adjunct Professor of Biotechnology in Assisted Reproduction at the Faculty of Biology, University of Urbino, Italy. She has authored >200 articles (Scopus Index 52), reviews and book chapters, she has also been invited to speak in more than 300 national and international scientific meetings and has won several awards regarding fertility investigation and innovation.
In 2008 she founded together with Dr. Filippo Maria Ubaldi the Genera IVF centers, with 4 different locations in Italy, where she is Laboratory Director. In 2020, she was actively involved in the creation of GeneraLife, a network of >30 clinics in 5 different countries in Europe: the name GeneraLife was inspired by the group she founded 12 years before.
