Mina Alikani

Mina is a renowned international expert in assisted reproduction. During her 35 years in the field, she has worked extensively on improving IVF laboratory performance and outcomes. Mina has lectured worldwide on ART topics, and she has authored and co-authored more than 70 articles and book chapters on laboratory aspects of assisted reproduction.

Early in her career, Mina worked with Dr. Jacques Cohen to establish the laboratories of The Center for Reproductive Medicine at Cornell University Medical Center (now Weill Cornell Medicine) in New York, and the Institute for Reproductive Medicine and Science of Saint Barnabas Medical Center in New Jersey as two of the leading reproductive medicine laboratories in the world.

More recently, Mina has served as a laboratory director, clinical consultant, and research scientist for ART labs in the U.S. and abroad. During her time as Director of Laboratories at the Center for Human Reproduction of North Shore University Hospital (now Northwell Health) in Long Island, she led the laboratory team in successfully implementing the center’s first blastocyst biopsy program.

Mina is an editor of the journal Reproductive Biomedicine Online and an Editorial Board member of the journal Fertility and Sterility. She is also an Executive Board member of Alpha Scientists in Reproductive Medicine. She holds a Ph.D. from Monash University in Australia, and she is certified as a High-Complexity Clinical Laboratory Director and Clinical Consultant.