Job: Embryologists

• 2020

FIVI Fertility & IVF Center, European Interbalkan Medical Center

Senior Clinical Embryologist

• 2016-2020

Biogenesis IVF Center, Thessaloniki

Deputy Lab Manager – Senior Clinical Embryologist

• 2012-2016

Embryokosmogenesis, Assisted Reproduction Unit of Thrace, Alexandroupolis

Lab Manager – Clinical Embryologist

• 2009-2012

Embryokosmogenesis, Assisted Reproduction Unit of Thrace, Alexandroupolis

Clinical Embryologist

• 2008-2009

Thessaloniki IVF And Infertility Center, European Interbalkan Medical Center Trainee Clinical Embryologist

• 2007-2008

Cryogenomics SA, Advanced Biotechnology Services – Cord Blood Bank

Biochemist

• 2001-2005

G.Gennimatas, General Hospital of Athens

Biochemist at the Laboratory for the Control of Immunosuppressed Patients

• In vitro fertilization.
• ICSI
• Evaluation of oocytes and embryos.
• Cryopreservation – vitrification.
• Semen analysis and preparation.
• Updating the laboratory protocols according to international standards and legislation.
• Involved in the quality assurance and quality control of laboratory procedures as described in ISO 9001 and ISO 15224.

• 2014-2015

Faculty of Medicine, Democritus University of Thrace

Participation in the postgraduate course, Master’s Degree Program “Human Reproduction”.

• Lecture presentation with topic “Transport of spermatozoa, capacitation and acrosomal reaction-transport of oocyte, fertilization, implantation, early stages of embryo development”.

• Practical laboratory sessions demonstrator “Basic Semen analysis and sperm morphology, Gamete micromanipulation – ICSI, Gamete and embryo cryopreservation and vitrification”

• Member of European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology.
• Member of Panhellenic Union of Clinical Embryologist.

• 2012

The effects of benzoylecgonine, oxytocin, ritodrine and atosiban on the contractility of myometrium. An experimental study.”, Journal of Clinical and Experimantal Obstetrics & Gynecology, Vol.XXXIX, no1, Nikolettos N, Triantafilidis I, Karachaliou V, Koutsougeras G, Vakopoulos I.

2022 – FIVI Fertility & IVF Center, European Interbalkan Medical Center
Clinical Embryologist

2017 – 2022 – Embryolab Fertility Clinic
Clinical Embryologist

2015 – 2016 – National Hellenic Research Foundation, Institute of Chemical Biology
Scientific Personnel

2011 – 2013 – Liaison Stem Cell Banking
Biologis

• European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE)
• Panhellenic Association of Bioscientists (PEV)

• Andrology lab techniques
• IVF techniques
• Sperm, embryo, oocyte, tissue cryopreservation
• Cell culture techniques
• Molecular techniques (RNA isolation, protein isolation, q RT-PCR, immunocytochemistry)

Oraiopoulou, A. Vorniotaki, E. Taki, A. Papatheodorou, N. Christoforidis, A. Chatziparasidou. The impact of fresh and frozen testicular tissue quality on embryological and clinical outcomes. Andrologia, Vol. 53, Issue 5 June 2021

“From triggering to ICSI: Optimal timing between triggering, OPU, denudation and ICSI”, 35th ESHRE Annual Meeting, June 2019, Vienna

“Wharton’s Jelly stem cells (WJ-MSCs) serve as anticancer and toxicity screening tools”, 66ο Hellenic Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (HSBMB), December 2015, Athens

“Naïve and genetically-modified hMSCs exhibit anti-proliferative effects on human cancer cells”, 40th Congress of the Federation of the European Biochemical Societies (FEBS), July 2015, Berlin

“The role of storage time and temperature before processing and cryopreservation on the quality of cord blood units”, The 7th Athens Congress on Women’s Health and Disease, September 2008, Athens

• 2020

FIVI Fertility & IVF Center – European Interbalkan Medical Center

Clinical Embryologist

• 2006 – 2019

Biogenesis IVF Center Thessaloniki

Clinical Embryologist

• 1990-2006

General Clinic Thessaloniki

Clinical Embryologist at IVF Unit

• Ensuring the quality of operation of the laboratory according to the standards ISO 15224 and ISO 9001.
• Participation in the management of the equipment of the laboratories of embryology, spermatology and cryopreservation

• Exposure time to cryoprotectants influences oocyte survival rate.”, Nikos Tsagias,BasilTarlatzis, Efthalia Paggou, Thomai, Sanopoulou, Elisavet Xatchiioannou, Aleka Tokmakidou, Minas Arsenakis, Ioannis Bontis. Journal of Biological Research 5: 55-60, 2006.

• Blastocyst Embryo transfer: clinical results depending on technique and day of Embryotransfer : L.Zepeiridis, V.K.Tarlatzis, T.Sanopoulou,G.Gribizis, A.Tokmakidou, H.Bili, E.Paggou, G.Pados, G.Papadimas, I.Bontis 2^nd Panhellenic Congress , Hellenic Fertility Society, Thessaloniki, December 2002, Free Announcements, pp. 49-50.