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Andrea Jurisicova obtained her BSc degree from Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia, specializing in Genetics and Molecular Biology. Her years of studies and experience as an embryologist at an IVF clinic sparked her interest in the high rate of embryo demise and the low implantation rates observed in infertile patients. After moving to Canada, she completed an MSc degree in Reproductive Physiology, followed by a PhD in Developmental Biology at the University of Toronto. Her postdoctoral training took place at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, where she concentrated on the regulation of cell death in the female gonad, with a particular focus on germ cells. Currently, she serves as an Associate Professor in the Departments of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Physiology at the University of Toronto and is an investigator at the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute at Mount Sinai Hospital. She maintains close collaborations with IVF units and is dedicated to advancing basic research and its translational potential related to female infertility. Dr. Jurisicova’s research highlights the molecular pathways involved in oocyte endowment and survival, as well as the genetic regulation of preimplantation embryo development and the establishment and maintenance of trophoblast lineages.
Department of Sociology