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Volume 22, Issue 5 , Pages 410-420 , May 2011

Oocyte developmental competence and embryo development: impact of lifestyle and environmental risk factors

Alex C. Varghese
- Fertility Clinic and IVF Department, AMRI Medical Centre, Kolkata, India
Kim D. Ly
- Center for Reproductive Medicine, Glickman Urological and Kidney Institute and Obstetrics and Gynecology and Women’s Health Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA
Cresandra Corbin
- Center for Reproductive Medicine, Glickman Urological and Kidney Institute and Obstetrics and Gynecology and Women’s Health Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA
Jaime Mendiola
- Public Health and Epidemiology Research Group, School of Medicine, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain
Ashok Agarwal
- Center for Reproductive Medicine, Glickman Urological and Kidney Institute and Obstetrics and Gynecology and Women’s Health Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA
- Corresponding author.

Received 20 January 2010 ,Revised 19 October 2010 ,Accepted 10 November 2010.

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Alex C Varghese has been an active embryologist and researcher on IVF since 1997 and received his PhD in 2005 from University of Calcutta, India. In 2008, after his post-doctoral tenure at Centre for Reproductive Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Ohio, USA, he became scientific director and chief embryologist at Fertility Clinic and IVF Department, AMRI Hospital. Alex founded lifeinvitro.com, a knowledge-sharing platform. His particular interests are molecular causes and prevention of male infertility, genomics and metabolomics in embryology and cryotolerence of reproductive cells. He is Secretary of Institute of Reproductive Health and Toxicology and Vice-President of Academy of Clinical Embryologists, India.