PGDIS Officers

PGDIS President

Dagan Wells

President

Dagan Wells is a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists, the Royal Society of Biology and the Institute of Biomedical Science and serves on the Editorial Boards of several international journals.

Joris Vermeesch

President-Elect

Joris Vermeesch heads the Cytogenetics & Genome Research Lab, pioneering genomic technologies mapping developmental disorders with a focus on structural variation and mosaicism detection.

Carmen Rubio

Treasurer

Doctor of Philosophy in Biology, University Valencia. Director Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis unit IVI-Valencia, since 1998.

Mandy Katz-Jaffe

Secretary

Dr. Katz-Jaffe is a reproductive geneticist who completed her Masters and Ph.D. at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.

Don Leigh

Past President (2021-2023)

Don Leigh has a PhD from University of NSW, Sydney Australia (1986) Currently tasked with establishing a centre for Precision Medicine.

Alan Handyside

Past President (2017-2019)

Internationally-recognised pioneer & expert in PGD with an extensive research portfolio in single cell diagnostics.

Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis International Society