Brian Dale
Brian Dale (31 August 1951) is a British reproductive scientist living in Sorrento, Italy. He is currently owner and Director of the Centre for Assisted Fertilization, which has offices in Naples and Rome and Director of London Fertility Associates Ltd in London. He is also a founder and partner in the Swiss-based company, International Fertility Associates.
While working for the Stazione Zoologica, Naples, and on leave at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda in 1983, he was attributed with the discovery of a soluble sperm factor in spermatozoa that is responsible for the activation of oocytes. His studies span animals and humans, from the identification of novel ion channels specific to fertilization, the fertilization channels, to processes leading to blastocyst formation in the human embryo
Dr Dale has developed and patented with Jacques Cohen equipment that filters and regulates air quality in IVF laboratories( CODA) used worldwide today to improve the success rates in human in vitro reproductive technologies.
He is founder and Editor in Chief of the International peer review journal of embryology, Zygote, published by Cambridge University Press and was visiting professor and visiting scientist at the University of Western Australia and NIH respectively.
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