Centro de Genética da Reprodução Prof. Alberto Barros

Specialist in Medical Genetics by the Order of Physicians, Full Professor and Director of the Department of Genetics of the Faculty of Medicine of Porto - Founder and Director of the Breeding Genetics Center, pioneered in Portugal of Intrauterine Artificial Insemination, In vitro fertilization of spermatozoa (May 1985), cryopreservation of sperm in liquid nitrogen (October 1985), intrauterine artificial insemination with donor spermatozoa (October 1985) and in vitro fertilization with intracytoplasmic microinjection (June 1994). Director and responsible for the team that obtained the first world pregnancies in two situations: total sperm immobility (through intracytoplasmic microinjection, 1996) and paraplegia with no ejaculation due to spinal cord injury with firearm (intracytoplasmic microinjection after harvesting Sperm by endorectal electroejaculation, 1997).