Jacques Cohen, Ph.D.
is the founder and president of Galileo Research Laboratories, LLC. Dr. Cohen has served as the Scientific Director of Assisted
Reproduction at the Institute for Reproductive Medicine and Science at Saint
Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston, New Jersey since 1995 and is
associated with several laboratories involved in IVF and PGD, both in Europe
and throughout the US.
Dr.
Cohen was trained at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, Holland as a
Reproductive Physiologist specializing in in
vitro fertilization and cryobiology.
His initial studies of human embryology occurred in the late 1970s
and he was one of the first embryologists in Bourn Hall Clinic in the UK.
Dr. Cohen moved to the US in 1985 after having studied the
application of IVF in male factor infertility and the cryopreservation of
blastocysts. In Atlanta,
Georgia, he and colleagues developed methods for micro-surgically assisting
human fertilization, precursor methods to ICSI. The same team was
responsible for the development of assisted hatching and co-culture
techniques. In 1989, Dr. Cohen
became the Laboratory Director for the IVF program at Cornell University
Medical College in New York, where aneuploidy and mosaicism diagnosis, as
well as fragment removal, were added to the list of technologies in use in
assisted reproductive medicine. Dr.
Cohen and his team have continued their work on the development of new
methods in cryobiology and preimplantation genetics at Saint Barnabas
Medical Center and in the various other centers with which they are
affiliated.
Dr.
Cohen travels extensively and is a frequent lecturer at conferences and
seminars on topics in human fertility research worldwide.
He has authored more than 200 publications, serves on the editorial
boards of numerous peer-reviewed publications and is widely recognized as a
leader in the science of reproductive medicine.
Dr. Cohen has held faculty appointments at Emory University in
Atlanta, Georgia, at Cornell University Graduate School of Medical Sciences
and at Cornell University Medical College, where he was a tenured Associate
Professor of Embryology in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
Dr. Cohen holds a faculty appointment at the College of Physicians
& Surgeons at Columbia University.
