Cornell creates Center for Reproductive Genomics

Ithaca, N.Y. - 7/13/2007 - Cornell University has launched the Center for Reproductive Genomics, a research hub to determine how genetics affect human and animal infertility.The center will combine basic and clinical research in reproductive sciences on Cornell?s Ithaca campus and at Weill Cornell Medical College (WCMC) in New York City, which has one of the country?s leading fertility clinics. A $5-million grant is being submitted to the National Institutes of Health to fund the center.