Standards in semen examination: publishing reproducible and reliable data based on high-quality methodology

Affiliations

• ¹ ANOVA, Karolinska University Hospital and Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
• ² Reproductive Medicine Research Group, Division of Systems Medicine, School of Medicine, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK.
• ³ Oozoa Biomedical Inc., West Vancouver, BC, Canada.
• ⁴ Case Western Reserve University, Moreland Hills, OH, USA.
• ⁵ Priority Research Centre for Reproductive Science, Faculty of Science and Faculty of Health & Medicine, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia.
• ⁶ Centro Androgen, La Coruña, Spain.
• ⁷ Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
• ⁸ Department of Urology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.
• ⁹ Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Florence, Florence, Tuscany, Italia.
• ¹⁰ Andrology Department, Laboratory of Andrology and Sperm Bank, Fundació Puigvert, Barcelona, Spain.
• ¹¹ Department of Reproductive Biology, Fertility Preservation, Andrology, CECOS, Poissy Hospital, Poissy, France.
• ¹² Paris Saclay University, UVSQ, INRAE, BREED, Jouy-en-Josas, France.
• ¹³ School of Health Systems and Public Health, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.
• ¹⁴ Andrology and IVF Laboratory, Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
• ¹⁵ Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
• ¹⁶ GAMETIA Biobank, Granada, Spain.
• ¹⁷ Hospital Universitario Virgen de las Nieves and Instituto de Investigación Biosanitaria ibs. GRANADA, Granada, Spain.
• ¹⁸ LAFER Sperm Bank, Tuxpan 10-606, Roma Sur, C.P. 06760, Cuauhtémoc, Mexico City, Mexico.
• ¹⁹ Robert Wood Johnson Medical School at Camden, The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Camden, NJ, USA.
• ²⁰ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Reproductive Endocrinology & Infertility, Cooper Hospital/University Medical Center, Melrose Park, PA, USA.
• ²¹ Instituto de Biología y Medicina Experimental (IbyME-CONICET), Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• ²² US EPA, Cary, NC, USA.
• ²³ US NIH, Cary, NC, USA.
• ²⁴ Faculty of Health Science, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.
• ²⁵ University of Minnesota Medical Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
• ²⁶ Université Clermont Auvergne/CNRS/INSERM-GreD Institute, Clermont-Ferrand, France.
• ²⁷ School of Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, MI, USA.
• ²⁸ College of Medicine, Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
• ²⁹ Male Reproductive Medicine and Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.
• ³⁰ Department of Urology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.
• ³¹ ANDROFERT, Andrology and Human Reproduction Clinic, Campinas, Brazil.
• ³² Department of Surgery (Division of Urology), University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil.
• ³³ Faculty of Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus C, Denmark.
• ³⁴ CRYOGONIA Cryopreservation Bank, Athens, Greece.
• ³⁵ Laboratory of Physiology, Department of Medicine, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece.
• ³⁶ Unit of Andrology and Reproductive Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Padova, Padova, Italia.
• ³⁷ IVI Foundation, Health Research Institute La Fe, Valencia, Spain.
• ³⁸ Department of Translational Medicine, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden.
• ³⁹ Antwerp University Hospital, Edegem, Belgium.
• ⁴⁰ Department of Life Sciences and Health, Oslo Metropolitan University, Oslo, Norway.
• ⁴¹ Department of Metabolism, Digestion & Reproduction, Imperial College London, London, UK.
• ⁴² Department of Medical Bioscience, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, South Africa.
• ⁴³ Division of Urology, Department of CLINTEC, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
• ⁴⁴ Department of Urology, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.
• ⁴⁵ Department of Endocrine Neoplasia & Hormonal Disorders, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.
• ⁴⁶ Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
• ⁴⁷ Department of Cell Biology, Poznan University of Medical Science, Poznan, Poland.
• ⁴⁸ Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France.
• ⁴⁹ Department of Growth and Reproduction, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark.
• ⁵⁰ International Center for Research and Research Training in Endocrine Disruption of Male Reproduction and Child Health (EDMaRC), Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark.
• ⁵¹ Centre for Human Reproductive Science (ChRS), UK.
• ⁵² College of Medical & Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK.
• ⁵³ Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust, UK.
• ⁵⁴ Department of Biomedical, Experimental and Clinical Sciences "Mario Serio", University of Florence, Florence, Italy.
• ⁵⁵ Department of Reproductive Biology and Stem Cells, Institutet of Human Genetics, Poznan, Poland.
• ⁵⁶ Brady Department of Urology, Center for Reproductive Genomics and Englander Institute for Precision Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell University, New York, NY, USA.
• ⁵⁷ Braun School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Hadassah Medical Center, The Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel.
• ⁵⁸ Hudson Institute, Centre for Reproductive Health, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia.
• ⁵⁹ Hudson Institute of Medical Research, Centre for Endocrinology and Metabolism, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia.
• ⁶⁰ Dermatology and Andrology Department, Assiut University Hospital, Assiut, Egypt.
• ⁶¹ Faculty of Medicine, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt.
• ⁶² Country Director, Population Council (International Programs).
• ⁶³ Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Justus-Liebig-University of Giessen, Giessen, Germany.
• ⁶⁴ Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Tygerberg, South Africa.
• ⁶⁵ Division of REI, Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
• ⁶⁶ Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
• ⁶⁷ CreATe Fertility Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada.
• ⁶⁸ Male Fertility Laboratory, Department of Urology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA.
• ⁶⁹ Laboratorio de Medicina Reproductiva, Facultad de Ciencias Bioquímicas y Farmacéuticas, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina.
• ⁷⁰ Department of Urology, UIC College of Medicine, IL, USA.
• ⁷¹ Department of Bioengineering, UIC College of Engineering, IL, USA.
• ⁷² Department of Surgery (Urology Division), McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada.
• ⁷³ Molecular Biology of Reproduction and Development Group, Biomedical Research Institute August Pi I Sunyer (IDIBAPS), University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
• ⁷⁴ Hospital Clínic, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
• ⁷⁵ Genk Institute for Fertility Technology, Genk, Belgium.
• ⁷⁶ Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, ZOL Hospitals and Hasselt University, Genk, Belgium.
• ⁷⁷ Department of Oncology and Metabolism, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.
• ⁷⁸ Department of Infection, Immunity and Cardiovascular Disease, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.
• ⁷⁹ Bloomfield College, Bloomfield, NJ, USA.
• ⁸⁰ Department of Urology, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA.
• ⁸¹ Division of Reproductive Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecologie, Radboud UMC, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
• ⁸² Service Laboratoire de Biologie de la Reproduction-CECOS, Equipe Physiopathologie Surrénalienne et Gonadique, Unité Inserm 1239 NorDic, CHU-Hôpitaux de Rouen, UFR Santé-Université de Rouen, Rouen, France.
• ⁸³ Department of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC), Madrid, Spain.
• ⁸⁴ Fertility Solutions Inc., Warrensville Heights, OH, USA.
• ⁸⁵ Boston IVF, Boston, MA, USA.
• ⁸⁶ University Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milan, Italy.
• ⁸⁷ Division of Experimental Oncology/Unit of Urology, URI, IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele, Milan, Italy.
• ⁸⁸ Department of Clinical Chemistry and Molecular Biology, Virgen del Rocío University Hospital, Seville, Spain.
• ⁸⁹ Depto de Histologia y Embriología, Facultad de Medicina, Gral. Flores, Uruguay.
• ⁹⁰ Centre of Reproductive Medicine and Andrology, Münster, Germany.
• ⁹¹ Department of Urology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
• ⁹² Section of Andrology, Department of Urology, Pediatric Urology & Andrology, Justus-Liebig-University/University Hospital of Giessen-Marburg, Giessen, Germany.
• ⁹³ Lilavati Hospital & Research Centre, Mumbai, India.
• ⁹⁴ Human and Animal Physiology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
• ⁹⁵ WHO Department of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Research (includes the UNDP/UNFPA/UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction-HRP), Geneva, Switzerland.
• ⁹⁶ Centre for Reproductive Medicine, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium.
• ⁹⁷ The Turek Clinic, San Francisco, CA, USA.
• ⁹⁸ Medical Bioscience, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, South Africa.
• ⁹⁹ Physiology Medical School, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
• ¹⁰⁰ Department of Animal Science, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
• ¹⁰¹ IBYME, CONICET-FIBYME, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• ¹⁰² Clinical and Translational Science Institute, The Lundquist Institute, Torrance, CA, USA.
• ¹⁰³ Division of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA.
• ¹⁰⁴ Fertility Laboratory, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
• ¹⁰⁵ Thessaloniki Andrology Laboratory-Hellenic Sperm Bank, Thessaloniki, Greece.
• ¹⁰⁶ Laboratory of Histology-Embryology, Medical School, University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
• ¹⁰⁷ Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, St Mary's Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.