Conceivable Life Sciences

We love having visitors and it was so great to host our friend and investor Tara Bishop MD, MPH at our R&D center in Guadalajara. Our co-founders Alan Murray and Alejandro Chavez-Badiola, MD, PhD put her to work and the team gave a demo of our automated C:DISH workstation. Smiles all around! #IVF #IVFAutomation #biotechnology Black Opal Ventures

Congrats to Conceivable Life Sciences UK, Alejandro Chavez-Badiola, MD, PhD, Dr Stephanie Kuku, MD, and Giuseppe Silvestri for the £2 million SMART grant win from UK Research and Innovation (Innovate UK) for our automated vitrification project! Nice work.

At Conceivable Life Sciences, we think of ourselves as The Ultimate Family Business. Our purpose is clear: To help more people achieve the dream of becoming parents. Our vision is profound: A future in which infertility no longer determines who can start a family. We believe a key path to get there is through our pioneering end-to-end automation of the IVF lab. Change is coming. #IVF #IVFAutomation

We are excited to introduce AURA: The world’s first end-to-end automation of the IVF lab. This is not theoretical. We are already achieving pregnancies. AURA performs the more than 200 steps necessary to combine sperm and eggs to create viable embryos. Conceivable’s AURA workcell will be operational in early 2025 and we can’t wait to work with clinicians everywhere to improve IVF outcomes, increase scale, and lower costs. Alan Murray, Joshua Abram, Alejandro Chavez-Badiola, MD, PhD, Jacques Cohen, Mina Alikani, Brian A. Levine, MD, MS, FACOG, Brian Bixon, David Sable, Aike Ho, Dr Stephanie Kuku, MD #IVFAutomation #IVF Watch the film and see the future now:

"Normalization and credibility for this Nobel Prize winning therapy is critical to making IVF accessible to the millions of people who want to achieve the dream of becoming parents." --Joshua Abram, Co-founder & Chairman Conceivable Life Sciences

In an article entitled “Robots and AI are Aiming to Make IVF Cheaper,” Bloomberg recognizes that the future of IVF is automated. At Conceivable Life Sciences, we not only agree--we’re leading the revolution.  As Bloomberg journalist Kristen V. Brown notes, “Industry watchers say [Conceivable] is closest to automating nearly every step of the lab, with just one human embryologist, a lab technician, and an engineer to oversee it.“ Of course, we know that our world’s first end-to-end automation of the IVF lab will help with demand, but we’re even more encouraged by our early data showing we will improve results, which will also reduce costs. Or as Brown describes it: “The technology has the potential to improve the procedure’s success rate and lower costs, thereby expanding access to widely needed treatments that are out of reach for many.” As our founder Joshua Abram says, “This trifecta of improved results, increased scale, and reduced costs will move this Nobel Prize winning therapy from concierge medicine to a population health solution for the 1 in 6 people worldwide that suffer from infertility.” #IVFAutomation

On this day Miriam Menkin (1901-1992), the American scientist and pioneer of reproductive medicine was born. Best known for her work in the development of IVF at Harvard Medical School, Menkin made history in 1944 when she successfully fertilized a human egg outside the body, a breakthrough that laid the foundation for modern IVF technology. Despite working in an era when women faced significant barriers in science, Menkin's meticulous research and perseverance were instrumental in achieving this scientific milestone. Her work has provided hope for the 1 in 6 couples worldwide that are struggling with infertility and Miriam Menkin's legacy lives on in the millions of lives touched by IVF.  Conceivable is building on the foundational work of this giant in the field as we create the world’s first end-to-end automated IVF lab, designed to improve outcomes, expand access, and reduce costs. #IVFAutomated #IVF #Fertility #WomenInSTEM

Our co-founder and chairman Joshua Abram on how Conceivable's end-to-end automation of the lab will improve results, lower cost, and allow IVF to scale to meet the true demand of 1 million+ babies a month. #IVFAutomation

Our co-founder and chairman Joshua Abram talked with CCRM's Brian Levine, MD about the importance of automating the IVF lab.

Every year, tens of thousands of women go through a hormone stimulation cycle to produce as many eggs as possible for the chance to have a baby via IVF. And yet, once the egg retrieval is done, how many patients are aware of what happens to their eggs? 〰Do they know that their eggs are placed in a small petri dish (like the one I am holding) and undergo 100+ manual steps? 〰How often does a doctor take the time to introduce the embryologist in charge of finding the eggs, cleaning the eggs, inseminating them, and converting them into good quality embryos to a patient? 〰 How often are patients ever offered the opportunity to take a look inside an embryology lab, where 90% of the IVF magic happens? Every time I meet an IVF patient, the answer is almost always never. IVF labs today operate behind closed curtains. And when a patient's eggs don't convert into embryos, they just offer another IVF cycle. At Conceivable Life Sciences, we are building technology that will drastically increase the safety of a patient's eggs. Just to name a few ways in which we are prioritizing eggs, Conceivable's technology will make sure that: 🥚 We find 10/10 eggs in a dish (yes, sometimes embryologists are tired and fail to find all of the eggs in a dish) 🥚Denude them gently 🥚And inseminate them without harming the membrane With Conceivable, we are envisioning a future where a patient will not only be invited to come into an embryology lab, but will also be able to track her eggs' journey through an IVF process. No more black boxes or half answers for patients. Excited to join RESOLVE: The National Infertility Association and Gameto in raising awareness about the importance of prioritizing the female patient experience during National Infertility Awareness Week. Please donate here to contribute to the incredible work that Barb Collura and her team do for patients: https://lnkd.in/eHMMDvgk And thank you again Barb Collura for all the work that you do - looking forward to building a future with more transparency for patients, because everyone's #EGGSPERIENCEmatters! #NIAW