Pregnancy Is an Immune Process
Pregnancy begins with a surprising immune negotiation.
Norbert GleicherHost
David BaradHost
I'm the medical director and chief scientist here at the Center for Human Reproduction.

We are today going to discuss a subject that is very, very important to me personally and has been at the very basic level of my career in reproductive medicine, and that is The question of why is the importance of immunology in fertility, in reproductive medicine, still so widely overlooked? And this is a question that I have addressed for 40 years.

I did a fellowship in immunology even before starting my residency in obstetrics and gynecology at Mount Sinai here in New York City.

And that may surprise you, and that actually may surprise many of my colleagues, dear colleagues often, who up to this day really outright poo-poo the importance of immunology in reproductive

Yes, there are still many colleagues, and some of them are excellent doctors and very smart people, who to this day argue that Reproductive immunology is just hocus-pocus.

It has nothing to do with women getting pregnant or not getting pregnant, et cetera, et cetera.

I'm the medical director and chief scientist here at the Center for Human Reproduction.

We are today going to discuss a subject that is very, very important to me personally and has been at the very basic level of my career in reproductive medicine, and that is The question of why is the importance of immunology in fertility, in reproductive medicine, still so widely overlooked? And this is a question that I have addressed for 40 years.

I did a fellowship in immunology even before starting my residency in obstetrics and gynecology at Mount Sinai here in New York City.

And that may surprise you, and that actually may surprise many of my colleagues, dear colleagues often, who up to this day really outright poo-poo the importance of immunology in reproductive

Yes, there are still many colleagues, and some of them are excellent doctors and very smart people, who to this day argue that Reproductive immunology is just hocus-pocus.

It has nothing to do with women getting pregnant or not getting pregnant, et cetera, et cetera.
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