Kimball Pomeroy, PhD, HCLD -Embryologist of the year!

Kimball O. Pomeroy, PhD, HCLD was trained to work in the field of embryology first as a student at Colorado State University where he worked with George E Seidel, Jr, PhD and Richard A. Bowen, DVM, PhD. He worked in the commercial cattle embryo transfer unit and worked with several other animal species including mice, rats, hamsters and rabbits. While there he became interested in molecular biology and studied DNA-binding proteins expressed during differentiation.

After receiving his PhD, he did post-doctoral research at the Salk Institute in the laboratory of Glen A. Evans, PhD and was involved in research in the human genome project (chromosome 11) and the production of transgenic mice. He then worked in Bristol England with Barbara D. Ray, PhD and Michael G. R. Hull, MD to learn skills in human IVF.

Kimball has worked as a consultant for several projects in Mexico, Nepal, China, Bolivia, and the Bahamas. He has served as a member of the SART Executive Board, Chair of the Reproductive Laboratory Technician’s Group, Chair of the College of Reproductive Biology, and a founding member of both the Regulatory Task Force and the Southwest Embryologist Summit.

Kimball has taught several master’s and PhD students while on staff at Florida International University, Eastern Virginia Medical School, and National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, where he teaches several lectures each year.

He currently serves as the Chief Science Officer for Ivy Fertility in the US and oversees several IVF laboratories in the US. He has lectured at many scientific meetings and post-graduate courses and has co-authored papers dealing with Covid-19 and the IVF laboratory, best practices for nitrogen storage tanks, risks of cross-contamination of microbes during storage of tissue in liquid nitrogen, the usefulness of embryo morphology in predicting pregnancy and the source of microbial contamination during embryo culture. He was recently awarded the lifetime achievement award by the Society of Reproductive Biologists and Technologists, an affiliated society of the American Society of Reproductive Medicine.