Course content
1
Opening of the school
Two decades of collaboration shaped today's IVF standards in the region — and the 2024 Summer School opens by acknowledging the people who built them. A short framing of the day ahead, focused entirely on the endometrium.
13:23
2
Peter Humaidan
Endometrial preparation for fresh embryo transfer
Why does luteal progesterone matter just as much in fresh cycles as in frozen? A walk-through of trigger choice, mid-luteal cut-offs and rescue strategies for the suboptimal corpus luteum — built on more than 15 years of randomised trials.
36:23
3
Christophe Blockeel
Endometrial preparation for frozen embryo transfer
HRT, modified natural or true natural cycle — which preparation actually delivers the best obstetric outcomes? A practical synthesis of recent data on E2 duration, progesterone route and timing, day-of-transfer monitoring, and the new NPP protocol that may reshape weekend scheduling.
37:23
4Peter Humaidan & Christophe Blockeel
Block 1 Q&A: hormonal endometrial preparation
Open-floor Q&A following the fresh and frozen preparation talks. Live exchange on rectal vs subcutaneous progesterone rescue, oral dydrogesterone limits, dual stimulation, estradiol cut-offs and where E2 monitoring still adds clinical value in 2024.
20:04
5
Nick Macklon
Endometrial receptivity: from biosensor to clinical practice
Receptive or non-receptive? A continuum-based view of the endometrium as an active biosensor that selects against poor-quality embryos. Why the classical 'all in the egg' narrative misses recurrent implantation failure — and how a new diagnostic toolbox is taking shape.
38:59
6
Inmaculada Moreno Gimeno
Endometrial microbiome and IVF outcomes
Lactobacillus dominance, the ENMA test, and a personalised antibiotic-probiotic pathway: how far has the evidence for the endometrial microbiome come in IVF? Live-birth data, host-microbial interactions at the GPCR level, and what to do with a dysbiotic sample before transfer.
36:05
7
Nick Macklon & Inmaculada Moreno Gimeno & Carlos Simon
Block 2 Q&A: endometrial receptivity and microbiome
Open-floor Q&A on receptivity, selectivity and the microbiome. Discussion of sirolimus-class interventions, NK-cell modulation, probiotic strain specificity, and how to interpret an excess of Lactobacillus crispatus in the endometrium versus the vagina.
17:00
8Carlos Simon
Direct embryo transfer: a new automated technique
How much of IVF failure happens after the transfer catheter leaves the cervix? An unpublished preview of next-generation embryo transfer — robotic microfluidic injection into a defined endometrial pocket under image guidance, on the way to first-in-human trials.
20:39
9
Mykola Gryshchenko
Artificial intelligence, femtech and automation in IVF
From at-home hormonal screening and ultrasound classifiers to CD138 detection in chronic endometritis and endometrium-on-chip — a tour of where artificial intelligence already adds value across the IVF cycle, and where its real limits sit today.
28:34
