Palermo, Gianpiero

Gianpiero D. Palermo, M.D., Ph.D. is the developer of intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI), the revolutionary procedure that has been able to virtually cure male infertility. He established the ICSI programs with Prof. André Van Steirteghem at the Brussels Free University in Belgium and later with Prof. Zev Rosenwaks at Cornell University in New York. There are over 2 million babies born from ICSI worldwide. Dr. Palermo has delivered more than 170 lectures before international audiences, presented over 250 abstracts, several book chapters, and authored/co-authored over 100 peer-reviewed articles. Since 1993, he has been the Director of the ICSI Program at the Cornell Institute for Reproductive Medicine and Associate Professor at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University. He leads a team of talented researchers actively involved in molecular and genetic aspects of fertilization, follow-up of ICSI babies, genetic aspects of male infertility as well as devising new procedures to treat age-related female infertility, and harvesting and differentiation of ESCs.