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Our Expertise

Our Doctors

Medical Director

Nick Macklon

Professor Macklon is a Medical Director of London Egg Bank. He is a world-renowned expert in reproductive medicine. He has held professorships at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands, the University of Southampton and the University of Copenhagen. He has published more than 200 papers, is a member of the British Fertility Covid Advisory Group and past member of the Executive Committee of the European Society of Human Reproduction.
Clinical Director

Shailaja Nair

Dr Shailaja Nair is Clinical Director and a founding member of London Egg Bank. She has more than 20 years’ experience in fertility and assisted reproduction. Before joining London Women’s Clinic, she worked in West London as an Associate Professor in a large teaching hospital and at the Cromwell IVF programme. Renowned for her passion, Dr Nair has extensive experience in all aspects of assisted conception, with a special focus in egg donation and cryobanking.
Scientific and Managing Director

Kamal Ahuja

Kamal Ahuja gained his PhD at Cambridge under the supervision of Professor Robert Edwards, which sparked his lasting interest in clinical IVF. The ethics of IVF and its cost effectiveness continue to be part of his research interests. Dr Ahuja is Chairman of Reproductive BioMedicine Online, an international medical journal, and the Scientific and Managing Director of London Egg Bank. He pioneered the concept of egg sharing in the UK and since 1994 has been at the forefront of many of the innovations in egg donation and cryopreservation.
Head Of Embryology

Elena Linara-Demakakou

Elena has 17 years of experience in embryology and is qualified in biomedical sciences, prenatal genetics and fetal medicine, and clinical embryology. Her interests span from oocyte and embryo vitrification, prenatal genetics, and quality management, and she has gained valuable decade-long experience in intrauterine insemination. Before joining London Women’s Clinic she worked as an embryologist, andrologist, and Deputy Sperm Bank manager.
Deputy Clinical Director for the LEB

Marianne Vendola

Dr Vendola is a graduate from the University of Rome where she received her PHD in Prenatal Medicine, and is also a research scholar at the Thomas Jefferson University of Philadelphia. Prior to joining LEB and LWC she was a Consultant in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Hospital Fatebenefratelli in Rome. She has been working as a Consultant in Gynaecology and in Reproductive Medicine at London Women’s Clinic since 2016. She has expertise in all aspects of infertility management and performs diagnostic and reproductive surgical procedures such as oocyte retrievals, embryo transfers and IUIs, hycosy and aqua scans. She is also an accredited trainer for those procedures.She specializes in working with various patient groups, including infertile patients, post menopausal patients, surrogacy couples, egg freezers and egg donors.
Consultant Reproductive Medicine, MBBS, MRCOG, DFFP, MRCGP

Priti Jain Maheshwari

Priti is a highly skilled clinician with extensive knowledge and over 10 years of experience. She underwent Fellowship in Assisted Conception at Edinburgh (EFREC). Subsequently, having worked in both NHS and Private Assisted Conception Clinics (Kingston ACU, Care Fertility & iTrust fertility), she has acquired extensive experience in all aspects including ovarian stimulation for IVF/ICSI using own gametes or donor gametes, Fertility Preservation, Egg Donation, Pre-implantation genetic testing. She is competent in all fertility procedures like Oocyte retrievals, Embryo Transfers, and HyCosy & Aqua scans.
Consultant in Reproductive Medicine

Mr Michael Summers MD., PhD., FACOG

Educated at Cambridge University and a member of King’s College, Mr Summers has held staff appointments at St Mary’s Hospital Medical School, London; University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and many more. He is a Clinical Associate Professor in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Division of Reproductive Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Centre. As well as this, he holds an Honorary Readership in the School of Biosciences at the University of Kent. He is currently a Consultant in Reproductive Medicine at London Women’s Clinic and London Egg Bank specialising in Fertility, Gynaecology and Genetics.
Deputy Clinical Director

Hemlata Thackare

Dr Thackare completed her clinical research fellowships in reproductive medicine at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, the London Fertility Centre and The Cromwell IVF Unit, Swansea. She has a special interest in endometrial factors in implantation and polycystic ovarian syndrome and received”‘The Best Young Scientist” award from the British Fertility Society in 2004.
Consultant Gynaecologist and IVF Specialist

Timea Kovats

Originally from Hungary, Dr Kovats has been working in the field of reproductive medicine and assisted conception since 1993. Since 2012, Dr Kovats has been settled in the UK, becoming renowned for providing specialist care in fertility. She is highly experienced in all aspects of reproductive medicine, with a particular interest in the complicated cases and management of gynaecological disorders and eventually egg donation when she joined London Women’s Clinic over six years ago.
Consultant Gynaecologist

Mohar Goswami

Mohar Goswami is a Consultant Gynaecologist and Sub Specialist in Reproductive Medicine, having trained at Newcastle followed by a successful period at the Chelsea and Westminster NHS Trust in London. Before joining LWC in 2018, for many years Mohar worked as a Consultant Gynaecologist and Fertility Specialist in the NHS. Holistic care and all aspects of fertility management are integral to her practice. She is available for consultations at London Egg Bank, Clementine Churchill Hospital, Harrow as well as at Harley Street, London.
Consultant IVF Specialist

Safwat Ashour

Since 2007 Dr Safwat Ashour has lead London Women’s Clinic’s clinical programme at the BMI Woodlands Hospital, Darlington. He has been a steadying influence on the development of London Egg Bank in the North East of England. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists London and is well known for his surgical skills, compassion and consistently high success rates. Pre-implantation genetic screening of embryos, egg freezing and egg donation are his areas of advanced expertise.
Genetic Counsellor

Baharak Mohammadi

Bahar is a Medical Geneticist and Genetic Counsellor specialising in reproductive and pre- implantation genetics with 10 years of experience behind her. She is much admired for her kind and sympathetic assessment of patient’s needs, and is a very integral part of London Egg Bank and London Women’s Clinic.

Our Labs

The IVF laboratory is the heart of any IVF clinic. It’s our embryologists who work very hard to create, grow and look after all our embryos. Our laboratories are state-of-the-art and our scientists are highly qualified with excellent technical skills and great attention to detail.
We pay great attention to the laboratory environment and have very strict quality assurance as parameters such as temperature, airflow, and air quality to ensure the culture system that grows the embryos is excellent.

Our Labs

The IVF laboratory is the heart of any IVF clinic. It’s our embryologists who work very hard to create, grow and look after all our embryos. Our laboratories are state-of-the-art and our scientists are highly qualified with excellent technical skills and great attention to detail.

We pay great attention to the laboratory environment and have very strict quality assurance as parameters such as temperature, airflow, and air quality to ensure the culture system that grows the embryos is excellent.

We also use time-lapse technology, which allows the embryologists to select embryos not only by their shape but also by their movement as evident in minute-by-minute pictures. This culture method improves implantation rates, reduces pregnancy loss and it gives a shorter time to pregnancy.

The laboratory, based at London Women’s Clinic, provides all scientific services for London Egg Bank. We are proud to have the best results in the country, and we offer personalised matching with London Egg Bank.

We are very pleased to be working in conjunction with London Sperm Bank as it gives us the opportunity to know information about the donor sperm to be used in the treatment and be able to offer it to you without any delays of transportation.

If you need frozen donor oocytes or if you wish to freeze and preserve your own, then you are at the right place. We are proud to have the best results in the country, and we offer personalised matching with the LEB team and consultation with our lead embryologists to ensure you identify the donor you wish but also to understand every single step of the process that will make you comfortable to go through your treatment.

Our processes are designed to not only offer excellent pregnancy results but also, with the use of an excellent electronic witnessing system, we can guarantee the ultimate safety and traceability of your eggs and embryos. This gives us an extra degree of reassurance and confidence for 100% safety.

Finally, we have a dedicated team to analyse our internal data and do research. This not only allows improvement of our techniques and protocols, but also gives us the confidence to explain our results and expectations based on our very own experience.

Our Research

Most of the research derived from London Egg Bank is conducted in collaboration with London Women’s Clinic and is based on the data we have accumulated in egg donation and social egg freezing. No other clinic group in Britain has the patient or cycle numbers of London Egg Bank, which provides a unique basis to assess the effect of treatments – in their success rates, their materials and methods, and their wider implications.
Some of this research has been performed with the Centre for Family Studies in Cambridge, which specialises in following up the many ‘unusual’ family formations that egg and sperm donation have allowed. It is no longer difficult for same-sex couples (male or female) or single women to have children of their own and the databases of London Egg Bank and London Women’s Clinic provide strong evidence of how children in these new families develop and with what questions about their background.
With such an emphasis on freezing at London Egg Bank, it’s no surprise that vitrification and its impact on everyday fertility treatments have featured in our research. It was from London Women’s Clinic’s early analysis of freezing eggs by vitrification that the foundation stones of London Egg Bank were built, and this in itself would pave the way for the revolution of frozen egg donation in the UK, thus reversing the march of patients to overseas clinics for donor eggs.
Today, all medical services live an age of ‘evidence-based medicine’, and here at London Egg Bank, we have strong evidence of the UK’s largest series of egg donation and social egg freezing patients. Each detail of their treatments is recorded, and it is the pattern of those details which gives us the clues to the improvements which are yet to come.

Egg Donation Has Come Home

Scientific Managing Director Dr Ahuja; and Medical Director Professor Macklon; discuss how the advances in egg freezing and vitrification technology have put an end to overseas egg donation in favour of UK-based clinics.

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Egg Freezing FAQ

Our FAQ page explains in more detail the process of egg freezing, and answers some of our most frequently asked questions.

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The revolution of vitrification in ART

Vitrification has catalysed a revolution in assisted reproductive technology that is disrupting models of care.

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Our Terms and Conditions

Conditions of use:

London Egg Bank (LEB) is a registered company in London based at 112 Harley Street.

By reserving a donor at the LEB, you, the recipient of the donated eggs, confirm that you have:

  • attended a consultation with a fertility doctor at LEB or any registered fertility clinic which has a Third-Party Agreement with LEB and have a treatment plan at that clinic.

  • received verbal and written information about your treatment and had the opportunity to discuss the procedures involved in receiving eggs as part of your treatment with your treating clinic.

  • been informed that you have received all the relevant information pertaining to your treatment from your treating clinic, as required by the HFEA Code of Practice.

  • been offered counselling by your treating clinic regarding the implications of the treatment.

  • received a confirmation of the full cost of your treatment.

Ordering and purchasing donor eggs:

  • An order is considered completed when the recipient has completed and returned all required documentation and made payment.

  • LEB will confirm your order when they have received confirmation of your treatment cycle from your chosen clinic, as well as have received your signed consent forms and payment in full.

  • Frozen eggs provided by LEB should be used in treatment within 4 months of the date of dispatch from LEB. This is to ensure that your reserved pregnancy slot is not lost.

  • Please complete and sign the donor characteristics consent form within 5 days or your order will be cancelled, remember to check your junk/spam mail folder. If you have any queries regarding your donor acceptance paperwork, please call 0207 299 9547 between 08.30 – 17.30hrs and a member of staff will be happy to help you.

  • Donor eggs will only be reserved and dispatched after full payment of eggs and transportation if required (see the Refunds and Cancellation policy for further details).

General:

  • Donor Eggs (Eggs) provided by LEB may only be used for embryo creation at the laboratory of one of the registered clinics which has a TPA with LEB.

  • LEB provides Eggs to you for your exclusive personal use, and you confirm that you will only use them as such.

  • LEB Eggs provided to you may not be resold or distributed without LEB’s written permission.

  • All information relating to donors is kept confidential and disclosed only in the circumstances permitted by law. Information on donors comprises sensitive personal data for purposes of the Data Protection Act 2018. LEB will only provide relevant information about your selected donor to you for the purpose of allowing you to select an Egg donor, without breaching the donor’s confidentiality (Data Protection Act 2018) and the relevant requirements of the HFEA Act 1990.

  • LEB’s donor database usually has a large selection of available donors. However, donor availability may be limited at times. LEB provides donor eggs on a first come, first served basis.

  • It is important that you inform LEB of the treatment date that you have agreed with your clinic. The LEB must be informed of any changes to this date immediately.

  • This agreement does not override the terms of paragraph 4A of Schedule 3 to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 (as amended) (‘HFEA Act’) which states that the Egg donor may withdraw or vary her consent from the use of her eggs in treatment at any time. This includes if an embryo has already been created using her Eggs. The variation to consent may occur up until the time of embryo transfer and may result in the discard of this embryo(s).

  • In some cases, there may be the possibility of adding extra eggs to the order from the same or a different donor. Please be aware that embryos created from different donors cannot be used in one treatment cycle.

Quality standards:

  • All donors available via the LEB donor database have been recruited and screened in compliance with donation criteria under the European Tissues and Cells Directive (EUTCD), Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) standards and professional guidance.

  • All frozen donor egg samples have been procured, tested, processed, preserved and stored in a manner consistent with EUTCD and HFEA requirements.

  • LEB does not take responsibility for eggs or embryos being accepted by any other external centres.

  • LEB eggs meet all required quality standards. However, LEB cannot guarantee that a pregnancy will be achieved using donor eggs or that any pregnancy or offspring derived as a result of using the egg donor will be free from genetic disorders/defects or infectious diseases. In particular:

    1. it is not feasible to test for ALL genetic markers or infectious diseases and in some cases, there are no available tests.

    2. donor testing is properly administered; however, even where the results return as normal, the tests have limitations and may not be entirely reliable; and

    3. LEB’s recruitment processes (including counselling) rely on the donor providing accurate and correct information about their genetic and general health history. We treat the information provided by the donor in good faith. LEB is not able to independently verify this information. However, to date we are not aware of any inaccurate information being provided by our donors.

Donor confidentiality:

  • Non-identifying information about each donor is displayed on the LEB donor database. LEB is unable to provide any further personal information on donors.

Refunds and cancellation policy:

  • Should you change your mind and wish to cancel your order for any reason, LEB will offer you a full refund within 5 working days of placing an order. 

  • Please note that the egg thaw survival rate and fertilisation rate provided on our patient information materials represent the averages of all patients per stated period of time and age group. We do not guarantee a minimum egg thaw survival or fertilisation rate per patient cycle. 

  • In the rare event that all the eggs (whether from one donor or a mix of two or more donors) do not survive the thawing process, LEB will offer you a new batch of eggs free of charge.

  • Once donor eggs are dispatched from our premises and delivered to a treatment centre not part of London Women’s
    Clinic / JD Healthcare Group, they are non-returnable and non-refundable.

Limitation of liability:

  • LEB shall not be liable for any special or consequential damages that result from the use of, or the inability to use, the materials on this site or the performance of the products, even if LEB has been advised of the possibility of such damages. Applicable law may not allow the limitation of exclusion of liability or incidental or consequential damages, so the above limitation or exclusion may not apply to you.

  • London Egg Bank cannot guarantee that additional eggs will be available at a later date for the purposes of treatment for a sibling pregnancy.

  • Donated eggs (fresh and/or frozen) are not quarantined prior to use. There is therefore a theoretical risk of transmission of infection through the transfer of embryos.