The Success Rates and Limits of Reproductive Medicine

Wilfried Feichtinger is one of the leading international experts in reproductive medicine and the CEO of the Vienna fertility clinic “Wunschbaby-Zentrum – Institut für Kinderwunsch”, where the first Austrian IVF-baby was born in 1982. In 1990, he invented laser-assisted hatching to ease nidation of fertilized eggs in the womb, and, in 2005, he carried out the first successful preimplantation diagnostics in collaboration with the geneticist Markus Hengstschläger. In 2018, he expanded the genetics laboratory and established personalised IVF.Eva Stanzl is a science editor for the Austrian daily newspaper Wiener Zeitung and the President of the Austrian Association of Education and Science Journalists. She has also worked as a science and economics journalist for Der Standard newspaper and Die Wirtschaft magazine. She studied English Literature and Philosophy at Bristol University, UK, and Cultural Management in Vienna.