PGT MILESTONES
PGDIS was organized in October 2002 and inaugurated during the 5th International Symposium on Preimplantation Genetics, Antalya, Turkey, June 5-7, 2003. Founding Members of PGDIS are the participants of the 4th International Symposium on Preimplantation Genetics, Limassol, Cyprus, 2002; and 5th International Symposium on Preimplantation Genetics, Antalia, Turkey, 2003.
The official Journal of PGDIS is Reproductive BioMedicine Online, the world's leading platform for high quality peer-reviewed, full-text scientific articles, which has recently published many papers on preimplantation genetic testing.
1978
Birth of the First IVF Baby
1990
Birth of the First PGT Baby after Embryo Sexing & First Clinical Application of Polar Body Analysis for Mendelian Disease
1993
FISH Analysis for Sexing and for PGT-A
1996
PGT for Chromosomal Translocations (PGT-SR)
1999
PGT for Late Onset Common Disorders with Genetic Predisposition; First Clinical blastocyst biopsy and live birth
2000
Preimplantation HLA Typing (PGT-HLA)
2002
Birth of First Thousand PGT Babies (See Figure 1)
2008
First PGDIS Hands-on Workshop for All Three Types of Biopsies
2009
PGD for Chromosomal Disorders by Microarray-Based Technology
2010
PGT-A by Next Generation Sequencing (NGS); Nobel Prize Award to PGDIS President Bob Edwards; Karyomapping for complete embryo genetic and recombination mapping
2014
Combined PGT for single gene and chromosomal disorders
2018
PGT by Nanopore-based Third Generation Sequencing (TGS)
PGDIS Development
1990
First International Symposium on Preimplantation Genetics (Chicago) and 1st Annual Meeting of International Working Group on Preimplantation Genetics)
1992
2nd Annual Meetings of International Working Groups on Preimplantation Genetics (Washington, D.C.) with publication of Annual Report
1993
3rd Annual Meetings of International Working Groups on Preimplantation Genetics (Thessaloniki) with publication of Annual Report
1994
4th Annual Meetings of International Working Groups on Preimplantation Genetics (New York) with publication of PGDIS Annual Report
1995
5th Annual Meetings of International Working Groups on Preimplantation Genetics (Hamburg) with publication of PGDIS Annual Report
1996
6th Annual Meetings of International Working Groups on Preimplantation Genetics (Rio-De Janeiro) with publication of Annual Report
1997
Second International Symposium on Preimplantation Genetics (Chicago) and 7th Annual Meetings of International Working Groups on Preimplantation Genetics with publication of Annual Report
1998
Eight Annual Meetings of International Working Groups on Preimplantation Genetics (Los Angeles) with publication of PGDIS Annual Report
1999
Nineth Annual Meetings of International Working Groups on Preimplantation Genetics (Sydney) with publication of PGDIS Annual Report
2000
Third International Symposium on Preimplantation Genetics (Bologna) and 10th Annual Meetings of International Working Groups on Preimplantation Genetics with publication of Annual Report
2001
Eleventh Annual Meetings of International Working Groups on Preimplantation Genetics (Vienna) with the publication of the PGDIS Annual Report
2002
Fourth International Symposium on Preimplantation Genetics (Chicago) and 12th Annual Meetings of International Working Groups on Preimplantation Genetics with publication of Annual Report
2003
Fifth International Symposium on Preimplantation Genetics (Antalia) with the publication of the PGDIS Annual Report