Raffaella Fabbri
University of Bologna, Italy
Biography
Raffaella Fabbri has been working as a Biologist in the Human Reproductive Medicine Unit, S Orsola-Malpighi Hospital of University of Bologna in Italy since 1977. In 2001, she received a national and international worldwide patent about method and solution for cryopreserving oocytes. In 2006, she obtained the United States Patent US 7,011,937 B2 for method and solutions for cryopreserving oocytes. She has her expertise in cryopreservation of human mature and immature oocytes, cryopreservation of embryos and blastocysts, cryopreservation of human ovarian tissue in vitro maturation of ovarian follicles, co-cultures of human granulosa cells and sperms, fertilization and embryonal development. She has been involved in many scientific activities which are well-documented by 335 articles published in Italian and foreign journals, participated in 134 meeting as speaker and 58 as Auditor.