Future Fertility and IVI RMA Global Research Alliance forge landmark commercial partnership to raise standard of care in egg quality assessment

Future Fertility, the leader in AI-powered oocyte quality assessment, and IVI RMA Global, the world’s leading reproductive medicine group, are excited to announce their new strategic commercial partnership.

Under this landmark agreement, Future Fertility’s VIOLET™ tool will be integrated into every egg freezing cycle at IVI RMA’s clinics across Europe and Latin America. Both companies will also collaborate to determine how this technology can be used to assess donor egg quality to provide greater transparency and precision in egg donation treatments.

IVI RMA is renowned for its scientific leadership and adoption of cutting-edge technology to advance patient care. This collaboration marks IVI RMA’s first large-scale AI technology partnership and is the most extensive clinic network partnership to date for Future Fertility.

Future Fertility has rapidly gained adoption within the fertility industry, with its oocyte assessment tools installed in over 100 clinics across more than 25 countries. Its seamless integration with various laboratory setups, from time-lapse to microscope-only environments, and unparalleled patient-facing oocyte quality reports have been the drivers of this momentum.

As the company’s dataset has grown to over 150,000 oocyte images and associated reproductive outcomes, the adoption of these tools is driving the creation of a standard of care for oocyte quality assessment.

“Future Fertility’s AI tools allow our clinics to evaluate oocyte quality with an unprecedented level of objectivity and data-driven precision,” said Prof. Laura Rienzi, head of innovation at IVI RMA.

“Their dedication to thorough clinical validation and peer-reviewed scientific publications provides us with evidence that these tools hold the potential to improve our lab processes, treatment planning and patient experience across our network.”

“Partnering with IVI RMA is an incredibly exciting milestone for us,” said Christy Prada, CEO of Future Fertility.

“This is a true testament to the value of our oocyte reports from an extremely prestigious leader in clinical care, and a strong validation of our scientific approach from the largest clinical network in fertility care globally.”

Empowering egg freezing patients with personalised insights

Historically, fertility specialists estimated an egg freezing patient’s chance of success based on age and the number of mature eggs retrieved.

Future Fertility’s deep learning model personalises fertility care by evaluating each egg’s unique likelihood of developing into a blastocyst based on its image. VIOLET™ reports also provide each patient with their personal chance of achieving a live birth from the eggs they’ve frozen.

Dr Antonio Requena, IVI RMA’s group medical director, emphasised the impact on patient care: “These individualised insights allow our clinical team to customise treatment plans to each patient’s specific needs, offering essential clarity on treatment expectations and improving patient counselling for future steps.”

“The current standard of care in reproductive medicine includes standardised methods to evaluate sperm, embryos, and the endometrium – but not the egg,” says Dr Dan Nayot, chief medical officer and co-founder at Future Fertility.

“Our team has been able to address this gap with AI so that patients and their fertility care teams can be empowered with precise information to make more-informed decisions along the path to parenthood.”

Long-term scientific partnership and expanded commercial collaboration

IVI RMA, ever committed to the scientific advancement of reproductive medicine, first began utilising Future Fertility’s tools in egg quality-focused research at its leading clinics in Spain in 2022.

Dr Marcos Meseguer, scientific director at IVI Valencia, highlighted the benefits of these tools in driving new avenues for investigation: “Future Fertility’s oocyte AI has created the opportunity for us to study and better understand the impact of different clinical approaches on egg quality.

“As the first player to develop this type of solution, they are paving the way for the industry to evolve thinking on the role of egg quality in treatment plans.”

His team presented their scientific findings at last year’s American Society of Reproductive Medicine conference in New Orleans, confirming the ability of VIOLET™ to predict fertilisation, blastocyst and live birth outcomes from oocyte images taken within the lab.

Other IVI RMA clinics under the GINEFIV, GINEMED and GENERA brands have been using VIOLET™ and MAGENTA™ in their scientific research for the past year and a half, assessing the role of AI in evaluating donor egg quality, enhancing transparency for recipients, and optimising donor egg screening.

“We were early believers in the importance of oocyte quality with respect to reproductive success,” said Dr Danilo Cimadomo, director of innovation in embryology at IVI RMA Italia.

“Future Fertility’s AI tools hold potential for improving our research projects by bringing objectivity into our efforts to better understand egg donor cycles.”

The progression of this enduring partnership from experimental roots to commercial adoption is indicative of the growing affirmation of Future Fertility’s technology worldwide.

Rafael Gonzalez, head of global sales and commercial strategy at Future Fertility, commented: “Our commercial traction has been remarkable across the countries we operate in.

“This new partnership with IVI RMA Global is the culmination of our long-time collaboration and is now empowering patients globally with more precise insights into their fertility treatment options.”