Jan 23AI In IVF: Separating The Useful From The So What?We’re up to ten million IVF babies in forty years — a great start. Now let’s get to a million babies a month. The need is there (in reality it’s higher), and many of the tools for expansion of assisted reproductive technology (ART) are already on the shelves, some at…Artificial Intelligence4 min readArtificial Intelligence4 min read
Oct 21, 2022More AI, + What PE Gets Wrong About IVFPre ASRM 2022 IVF Innovation Notes, Part 2 It’s been quite a year, with a lot of highlights. One was the first meeting of the AI in Fertility conference in Croatia, a great opportunity for me to be the dumbest person in a room full of embryologists and data scientists, to listen and to learn (good life lesson…3 min read3 min read
Oct 16, 2022The Four Guiding Principles For Democratizing IVF: Pre-ASRM 2022 Prep Notes From The Front Lines Of…The Four Guiding Principles For Democratizing IVF: Pre-ASRM 2022 Prep Notes From The Front Lines Of IVF Innovation Ah, October in New York: crisp air, colorful trees against a royal blue sky. Shorts and t-shirts on Monday; sweaters and sweats on Tuesday. Juilliard students busking in Riverside Park; packed subways heading uptown for the Penn-Columbia football game. Sorry, got carried away with that last one.Ivf4 min readIvf4 min read
Jul 31, 2022Modeling IVF Access Post Repeal of Roe v. Wade Part 2: Including Potential Impacts of Upcoming LegislationAbigail Sirus and David Sable MD July 31, 2022 Our previous whitepaper “A New Challenge for Fertility Patients? Modeling IVF Access Post Repeal of Roe v. Wade” modeled the potential impact of Roe’s repeal on women and couples undergoing in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment based on currently enacted legislation. Several…Ivf3 min readIvf3 min read
Jul 25, 2022A New Challenge for Fertility Patients? Modeling IVF Access Post Repeal of Roe v. WadeAbigail Sirus and David Sable MD July 23, 2022 How will the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade affect women and couples undergoing in vitro fertilization (IVF)? Will new restrictions on what can and cannot be performed in IVF reduce the procedure’s effectiveness or limit how clinics deliver care…Ivf11 min readIvf11 min read
Jun 18, 2022This Week in the Democratization of IVFfirst draft dispatches from the battle for a billion babies It was hectic week in the battle for a billion babies: board meetings, term sheets, cap tables, some pretty eye-opening under-NDA data. …7 min read7 min read
May 24, 2022IVF Post Repeal Of Roe v Wade: The Practical And ApoliticalIVF Beyond Borders, Return of The Polar Body? Like many of my ob/gyn colleagues, I have strong feelings about the Supreme Court’s looming decision on Roe v. Wade. But this piece is not about politics — mine or anyone else’s. …4 min read4 min read
Mar 30, 2022IVF Entrepreneurs: Be Anti-ExploitativeLessons in IVF venture capital, guideline #1: One of the unspoken motivations of IVF patients is avoiding a life-time of regret thinking that “I didn’t do all I could.” Many of the IVF start-ups I see adapt that line as part of their pitches, and why their particular intervention justifies…Ivf1 min readIvf1 min read
Oct 16, 2021Revisiting The Seven Trends That Define The Future Of IVFPre-ASRM prep notes, part 2. Back in 2015 I wrote a piece for Forbes that made a bunch of predictions about where IVF was heading. Time to re-examine. (The original article is online: [https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidsable/2015/02/28/the-seven-trends-that-define-the-future-of-ivf/?sh=5c2a12cf494b]) Then: Prediction 1. IVF for the prevention of disease: The combination of 1) inexpensive human genome sequencing…5 min read5 min read
Oct 10, 2021Pre-ASRM Prep Notes From The Front Lines Of IVF InnovationPart 1: artificial intelligence in IVF, private equity, the unexpected legacy of Covid-19 on IVF practice and the minefield of “add-on” pricing Regarding AI in IVF, the good news for the IVF world is that the people developing artificial intelligence for IVF are outstanding: visionary, knowledgable about data, science, patient…10 min read10 min read
