Since the first congress in 2001, ASPIRE has become the largest infertility and ART treatment conference in the Asia-Pacific region. The 8th Congress of the Asia Pacific Initiative on Reproduction (ASPIRE 2018) was held in Taipei from April 12th to 15th, 2018. The topics ranged from embryology, andrology, fertility preservation, PCOS, PGS, to IVM. There were approximately 1,474 participants from over 39 countries in attendance. The congress included plenary lectures, symposia, 3 pre-congress workshops as well as oral and poster presentations with a total of 79 faculty members.
At ASPIRE 2018, the research team of HOPE Research Center and IVF My Duc, My Duc Hospital attended with 18 abstracts including 16 oral presentations and 2 poster presentations. Hope Research center and IVFMD were extremely impressed with their delegation which presented with the most number of presentations at ASPIRE 2018. This was a great opportunity for our young researchers to exchange and share information as well as their rich research experiences with the leading world experts in Asia and around the world.