Dr Kylie Dunning heads the Reproductive Success Group within the Robinson Research Institute at the University of Adelaide, Australia. Her transdisciplinary research uses microfabrication, bio photonics and imaging to better understand the mechanisms underpinning healthy oocyte and embryo development.

Dr Dunning’s interdisciplinary expertise is best illustrated by her multi-faceted studies of embryo development and metabolism, in which she uniquely capitalised on the use of advanced optical analyses to develop a non-invasive technology to diagnose both the presence and location of aneuploid cells within the developing embryo. Her interdisciplinary research has received international recognition, winning the Basic Science Award at the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (2021) and highlighted in TIME magazine (USA, Sept 2022).