Dr. Gianpiero D. Palermo is esteemed internationally as the pioneer developer of intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI), the revolutionary procedure in which a single sperm cell is injected directly into the egg for fertilization. Dr. Palermo is Director of Assisted Fertilization and Andrology at CRMI and Associate Professor at the New York Presbyterian Hospital - Weill Medical College of Cornell University.
ICSI, which is now used worldwide, can help many men with severe forms of infertility to be fathers. More than 12,000 ICSI cycles have been completed at CRMI, and more than 5,000 babies have been born at the Center for Reproductive Medicine and Infertility using the ICSI procedure. Dr. Palermo has won many prestigious awards for his work, including the Serono Prize for medical research on chromosomal analysis of embryos, and the Barbara Eck Menning Founder's Award from RESOLVE, the national infertility organization.
Dr. Palermo has delivered more than 157 presentations before international audiences on topics in reproductive medicine, most often related to his pioneering research. He has presented more than 164 abstracts, prepared dozens of book chapters and proceedings, and authored or co-authored 101 peer reviewed articles for medical journals including the first reports on the use of ICSI in the Lancet and the New England Journal of Medicine. Dr. Palermo earned his M.D. at the School of Medicine at the University of Bari in Italy and his M.Sc. at Brussels Free University in Belgium. Having completed extensive post-doctoral training in Italy, Belgium and Australia, in 2005 Dr. Palermo was awarded his Ph.D.in Reproduction and Development from the Monash University for his thesis titled, "Manipulation of Development by Nuclear Transfer."