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Liping Cai, MD
Liping Cai, M.D. has served as the Laboratory Director at the Reproductive Care Center since 1998. She earned her first professional degree in medicine (equivalent to Doctor of Medicine) from the Gannan Medical College in China. This required 5 years of specialized training, after which she served on the laboratory research faculty for several years. She joined Dr. Heiner at UCLA in 1993, and served as his director of molecular biology research until 1995. In 1997 she moved to Utah to join the Reproductive Care Center laboratory staff, and in 1998 became its director. She guided the embryology and andrology laboratories here to be awarded the highest possible embryology and andrology lab accreditation in the United States, by the College of American Pathologists (CAP) in 2001. The lab continues to maintain its certification.
Brett Reggio, Ph.D , Embryology
Brett Reggio, Ph.D. joined the Reproductive Care Center in February 2007 as the Director of Research and Development. After completing his PhD at Louisiana State University he has worked in several embryology laboratories including Walter Reed Army Medical Center and the Northern California Fertility Medical Center.
Dr. Reggio graduated from Tulane University in New Orleans with a BS in Biology in 1992. Following employment at the IVF clinic at Tulane Hospital, he moved to Baton Rouge to pursue his MS (1997) and PhD (2002) degrees at Louisiana State University (LSU) in the Department of Animal Science.
Dr. Reggio concentrated on in vitro embryo culture systems and in producing cloned transgenic dairy animals capable of generating valuable pharmaceutical proteins in their milk, working closely with Genzyme Transgenics Corporation Biotherapeutics. One of these therapeutics (ATryn®) was approved in August 2006 by the European Commission for use in patients with hereditary antithrombin deficiency undergoing surgical procedures. This was the first approval in the world of a therapeutic protein produced from a transgenic animal. ATryn® is currently in phase III studies to support a filing in the United States requesting similar approval.
After leaving LSU in 2003, Dr. Reggio moved to Washington, DC to join the IVF team at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in order to use his skills in a clinical IVF setting. In 2005, Dr. Reggio became the IVF Laboratory Supervisor at the Northern California Medical Center in Roseville, California and then was recruited to join Reproductive Care Center in February 2007 as the Director of Research & Development.
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