Dror Meirow MD

Professor Dror Meirow is the director of the Morris Kahn Center for Fertility Preservation Division of Obstetrics and Gynecology, at Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Israel. He is the director of gynecology care for breast cancer patients at Sheba Medical center.

Prof. Meirow is a full Professor at the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Israel. He is the former President of the International Society of Fertility Preservation (ISFP).

Prof. Meirow received his M.D. from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. He then specialized and practiced as a senior physician in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Hadassah University Hospital. He conducted his basic research training at the Center for Reproduction Growth and Development with Prof. Roger Gosden at the University of Leeds, UK. In 2001, Prof Meirow founded the Clinical Center for Fertility Preservation and the Fertility Preservation Research Laboratory at Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer Israel.

Professor Meirow’s basic and clinical research is focused on the effects of chemotherapy on reproduction, and modalities for fertility preservation especially on ovarian tissue harvesting for fertility preservation, and medications that can prevent chemotherapy-induced ovarian damage. Prof. Meirow reported in the New England Journal of Medicine the first case of IVF, pregnancy, and delivery of a healthy baby to result from transplantation of cryopreserved thawed ovarian tissue in a sterilized former cancer patient. Prof. Meirow’s laboratory team published a pioneer study in Science Journal providing a new understanding of the “Burn-out” mechanisms involved in chemotherapy-induced ovarian damage and testing a novel fertility-protecting agent.