Sonia Gallet de la Fuente
Fertility specialist and Director of Medical Education at Center for Human Reproduction (CHR); MD, PhD, OBGYN, REI with expertise in embryo selection, fertility preservation, and reproductive immunology
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Jun 18, 2026
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I'm Dr. Sonia Gallet de la Fuente, a fertility specialist and physician scientist here at the Center for Human Reproduction.
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And today we're going to talk about a topic that may surprise you.
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What if embryo selection actually was not as important as we were led to think? And in fact, this is a topic that comes a lot onto the table on the consultations, in the lab, at conferences, even with infertility specialty colleagues.
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That's because for decades, IVF research has been heavily focused on trying to find the best embryo that a patient produced in a cohort, assuming that finding that and transferring it first would improve the chances of pregnancy and success of the patient for that given cycle.
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And that may feel reasonable, but it actually has been proven to not be necessarily true despite thousands and thousands of publications studying embryo selection.