Lana Rechitsky

Lana Rechitsky

Dr. Svetlana Rechitsky, received her PhD in Molecular Embryology in 1986. She moved to Reproductive Genetics Institute in 1989, where she heads DNA laboratory, which pioneered polar body-based PGT in 1990, and has performed the largest PGT series for single gene disorders, with PGT design for the majority of them developed for the first time. She published more than 150 papers in the field of PGT. She is the author of the Third Edition of “Atlas of Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis” and “Practical Preimplantation Genetic testing” (3RD edition - 2020). Dr. S. Rechitsky is a President and PGT/IVF Laboratory Director at Reproductive Genetic Innovations (RGI), past President of PGDIS, past Chairman of ASRM Special Interest Group on PGT, IFFS Board member and a clinical professor at Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine FIU.