Onda Cero Protagonists Award to the best scientific career (Valencia, 2002).
Society for Gynaecological Investigation (SGI) Roter Award 2002 for the abstract entitled “The ovary as a source of gonadotrophin dependent vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) in an ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome (OHSS) animal model.
Research Awards from the Spanish Fertility Society for the paper “Presence of Human Immunodeficiency virus and the Hepatitis C virus in washed sperm: absent or present but not infectious?” to authors Meseguer M. Garrido N., García de Lomas J., Simón C., Pelicer A., Remohí J. Palma de Mallorca, 2002.
Award for the work “The ovary as a source of Gonadotrophin Dependent Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor (VEGF) in an Ovarian Hyperstimulation Syndrome (OHSS) Animal Model”. The Annual Meeting of the Scientific Society in Los Angeles (California, 2002).
American Society for Reproductive Medicine Prize Paper 2001, for the work “Vascular endothelial growth factor 121 and 164 (VEGF-121 and VEGF-164) isoforms increase vascular permeability (VP) in hyperstimulated rats in prevented by blocking the VEGF receptor-2 (VEGFR-2)” (Orlando, Florida. 2001).
Prize for best oral paper at the 26th SEGO Congress, entitled “Abortion risk factors in an oocyte donation programme” (Valencia, 2001).
International Award from the American Society of Reproductive Medicine (2001).
Fundación Salud 2000 Research Prize “2001” for the research work entitled “Inhibition of vascular permeability as a key mechanism in blocking the development of ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome”.
Award for best video communication in Hysteroscopy presented at the National Congress of Gynaecological Endoscopy, entitled Hystero-embryoscopic exploration in failed gestation (Madrid, 2000).
Prize for best oral paper from the Spanish Fertility Society. Entitled “Endometrial Receptivity or embryo quality. What is more influential in implantation?” (Seville, 2000).
Prize for paper most voted for by the members of the Spanish Fertility Society. Entitled “Influence of chromosome anomalies in preimplantation development of human embryos” (Seville, 2000).
Research Prize from the Spanish Fertility Society for the abstracts entitled “Endometriosis and Apoptosis: a new hypothesis on its pathogenesis” ; Expresión of the FAS-FAS system linking (FAS-FASL) and BCL-2 in cells and fluids of the human ovary stimulated with gonadotropins”; Hormone and embryo regulation in the human endometrium of chemokines: interleukin-8 (IL-8), monocyte chemotactic protein-1 (MCP-1), regulated upon activation, normal T expressed and secretedŸ (RANTES) and their receptors CXRI, CCR2B y CCr5”; “Pronostic study of preimplantational genetic diagnosis in carriers of chromosome reorganisers” ; “Leptin: a new regulating factor in human implantation”; “The influence of chromosome anomalies in preimplantational development of human embryos” (Seville, 2000).
First Prize for the best photograph in the 1st SEGO National Photographic Competition. Third Prize for the video entitled Difficult Laparoscopic Myomectomy in the 2nd SEGO National Video Competition. Prize for the piece entitled Apoptosis in endometriosis: A new theory on its pathogenesis, at the 2nd SEGO National Video Competition (Zaragoza, 1999).
American Society for Reproductive Medicine Award for the paper: Coordinated regulation of endometrial epithelial cells apoptosis induced by the human blastocyst as a crucial mechanism during human implantation (Toronto, Canada. 1999). For the fourth time, the American Society for Reproductive Medicine honours IVI’s scientific team for the discovery of a number of substances produced by the embryo when in contact with the mother’s endometrium and which facilitate implantation and consequently gestation.
Fundación Salud 2000 Research Prize “1999” for the research project entitled “Embryo induction of apoptosis in the endometrial epithelium as a key mechanism in embryo implantation. Diagnostic implications”.
American Society for Reproductive Medicine (Society of Reproductive Endocrinologists) Prize Paper 1997, for the paper Interleukin-1 receptor antagonist (IL-1ra) prevents embryonic implantation by a direct effect on the endometrial epithelium (Cincinnati, Ohio, 1997).
Accesit to the Poster of the Diagnostics Session of the Spanish Society of Gynaecology and Obstetrics (SEGO) for the piece, Embryo development and incidente of chromosome alterations in a preimplant diagnosis programme (Marbella, 1997).
Accesit “Plaque of the Collage of Medicine of Lugo for the most groundbreaking video”, awarded to the video entitled “Preimplantational diagnosis” at the 5th National Competition of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Videos GINEVÍDEO 97.
First Organon Prize for the poster entitled Interleukin-1 receptor antagonist (IL-1ra) prevents embryonic implantation by a direct effect on the endometrial epithelium, at the 24th Spanish Congress of Gynaecology and Obstetrics (Marbella, 1997).
1997 Prize of The Ares-Serono Foundation Research in Reproductive Medicine, for the research project entitled “hCG induced cytokine production by endothelial cells as a mechanism of ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome”.
