Dr. Roberto Coco

Specialist
in Reprogenetics

GRADUATED FROM THE FACULTY OF BIOCHEMISTRY OF THE U.B.A. IN 1968

 


Specialized Training:
• Fellow of FEI of Hospital de Niños de Bs. As Ricardo Gutiérrez 1968/1969.
• Fellow of the Institute of Genetics and Pathological Anatomy of University of Pavia

  Italy 1974.
• Specialization in the Institute of the Progenese of the Faculty of Medicine of Paris, 

  France 1975.
• Specialization in the Laboratory of Fertilization in vitro of the Eastern Virginia Medical

  School of Norfolk U.S.A. 1985.
• Specialist in clinical citogenetics credited by the Argentine Society of Genetics.

 

Work experience:
• Technologist of the Department of Radiosanitary Medicine of the CONEA 1962-1969.
• Chief of Cytogenetic's laboratory of the CEDIE, Hospital de Niños de Bs.As. Ricardo

  Gutiérrez 1970/1990.
• Principal Professional of the Career of Support Personnel to the Scientific and

  Technical Investigation of the CONICET 1970/1988.
• Clinical Investigator of the CONICET 1988.
• Embryologist of I.V.F.'s laboratory of the CEGYR 1984/1987.
• DIRECTOR OF THE LABORATORY OF GENETICS AND IN VITRO FERTILIZATION OF

  FECUNDITAS since 1989.

 

Prominent achievements:
• Organization of Cytogenetic's laboratory of Hospital de Niños de Bs.As Ricardo

  Gutiérrez.
• Founder member of the Argentine Society of Genetics.
• Adviser in the organization of the therapeutic laboratories of In Vitro Fertilization of:

  CEGYR (Argentine As.-Bs.), CLINDIGO (Stgo. of Chile - Chile), Institute of Gynaecology

  and Reproduction (Lima - Peru), TO PROCREATE (Colombia Barranquilla-), FERTILE

  (Brazil Goiania-), and FERTILITY CENTER (N Y.)
• Organization of Cytogenetic's laboratory of the Institute of Health Sciences of

  Asunción Paraguay.
• Founder of Fecunditas, Integral Medical Institute of Fertility.
• Scientific Director of Fecunditas from 1989.
• Organization of the First bank of Semen of Argentina.
• Organization of the First program of Preimpantational Genetic Diagnosis of Argentina.
• Member of the Assessment Commission of the SEGEHU of the Society Argentina of

  Genetics.
• Official Member of Scientific National and International Societies related to the

  speciality.
• Publications in magazines and scientific books of the country and foreign countries.
• Director of thesists, scholars of the CONICET and of other Organizations of the

  country and of foreign countries
• Lecturer in Scientific National and International Meetings.
• Active participation in teaching and investigation.
• Renamed recognition by the leaders of other centers of Reproductive Medicine and

  Genetics of the country and of foreign countries.

 

Prizes:
• Best Doctoral Thesis of the Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry 1977.
• VILFRID BARON BIENIO 1980/1981 to the best scientific work on Human Genetics.
• Prize Prof. "Dr. Luis Leloir" of Qualitas 1988 to the best scientific work on Human

  Genetics.
• Prize Prof. " Mario Hugo Rigoli " 1989 of the Argentine Medical Association
• Argentine Society of Sterility and Fertility 1987 to the best work presented in Poster.
• National Academy of Medicine 1992 to the best original work performed in Argentina

  on medical-scientific topics
• Argentine Society Of Andrology 1995 to the best free communication.
• Prize Prof. " Dr Alberto Peralta Ramos " 1998 of the Society Argentina of Sterility and

  Fertility.
• Award Argentine Society of Sterility and Fertility Year 2000.
• Award group SAMER 2004.
• First award best work SOGIBA 2005.