Gianpiero D. Palermo, M.D., Ph.D.
"At CRMI, our goal is to help couples have more than
just a baby. In every case, we want couples to have a healthy
baby, using the safest and most effective treatment possible.
Our outstanding team of doctors, and the learning from our research
and laboratories, helps to make this possible for more couples
every year."
Dr. Gianpiero D. Palermo is esteemed internationally as the
pioneer developer of intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI),
the revolutionary procedure in which a single sperm cell is
injected directly into the egg for fertilization. Dr. Palermo
is Director of Assisted Fertilization and Andrology at CRMI
and Associate Professor at the New York Presbyterian Hospital
- Weill Medical College of Cornell University.
ICSI, which is now used worldwide, can help many men with severe
forms of infertility to be fathers. More than 12,000 ICSI cycles
have been completed at CRMI, and more than 5,000 babies have
been born at the Center for Reproductive Medicine and Infertility
using the ICSI procedure. Dr. Palermo has won many prestigious
awards for his work, including the Serono Prize for medical
research on chromosomal analysis of embryos, and the Barbara
Eck Menning Founder's Award from RESOLVE, the national infertility
organization.
Dr. Palermo has delivered more than 157 presentations before
international audiences on topics in reproductive medicine,
most often related to his pioneering research. He has presented
more than 164 abstracts, prepared dozens of book chapters and
proceedings, and authored or co-authored 101 peer reviewed articles
for medical journals including the first reports on the use
of ICSI in the Lancet and the New England Journal of Medicine.
Dr. Palermo earned his M.D. at the School of Medicine at the
University of Bari in Italy and his M.Sc. at Brussels
Free University in Belgium. Having completed extensive post-doctoral
training in Italy, Belgium and Australia, in 2005 Dr. Palermo was awarded
his Ph.D.in Reproduction and Development from the Monash University for
his thesis titled, "Manipulation of Development by Nuclear Transfer."
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