History
The leading global institution in reproductive medicine specializing in individual solutions
FOUNDATION
Since our foundation in the early 1980s, we have upheld a strong vocation and commitment to providing our patients with comprehensive care and the highest level of service. This commitment is reflected in external audits and in the achievement of leading quality certifications, including ISO 9001, ISO 14001, SEP (Excellent Private Healthcare), EFQM (European Foundation for Quality Management) QH Quality HealthCare, and UNE 179007 for reproductive laboratories, among others.
COMMITMENT TO QUALITY
TEACHING AND UNIVERSITY
Our primary objective has always been—and continues to be—to achieve the best results and drive progress in medical science. Therefore, alongside our healthcare activity, we carry out research and teaching work, two activities that enrich one another and materialize in:
UNIVERSITY CHAIR OF REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE
In partnership with the University of Alicante
CHAIR OF COMMUNITY MEDICINE AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH
At the Miguel Hernández University of Elche
HISTORICAL MILESTONES
1
First IVF pregnancy in the Valencian Community, 1987.
2
First and only pregnancies in Spain achieved using spermatids.
3
World’s first birth, in the summer of 2004, of a girl free from hereditary blindness (retinoschisis).
4
World’s first birth, in February 2006, of a boy free from Marfan Syndrome, using MDA.
5
Identification in 2016 of the genes involved in ovarian reserve.
I+D+I
To date, more than 400 scientific research studies have been carried out at our Institute as a result of our ongoing pursuit of individualized treatments for our patients.
At Instituto Bernabeu, we are people
Under exclusively medical management —we do not belong to investment groups— more than 300 gynecologists, urologists, geneticists, and biologists, together with our healthcare and administrative staff, are guided by strong ethical principles focused on the medical and emotional care of our patients.
Our Locations
8 national clinics
1 international clinic
Discover Our Clinics
Both our facility in Venice (Italy) and the eight Instituto Bernabeu care centers in Spain —in Alicante, Madrid-Ayala, Madrid-Velázquez, Palma de Mallorca, Cartagena, Albacete, Elche, and Benidorm— offer excellent facilities where comfort and well-being are combined with cutting-edge technologies.
Thousands of patients from more than 167 different nationalities have chosen to pursue their personal project of having a child with us, placing their trust in Instituto Bernabeu through our international comprehensive care department.
DIFFERENTIATION
BY OUR RESULTS
COMPREHENSIVE PATIENT CARE, MEDICAL AND EMOTIONAL
CUTTING-EDGE TECHNOLOGY
STRONG ETHICAL PRINCIPLES
TREATMENTS TAILORED TO EACH PATIENT’S NEEDS
RESEARCH PROGRAMMES
EXHAUSTIVE QUALITY CONTROLS IN ALL PROCESSES
OUR FACILITIES
Rafael Bernabeu Foundation
The Rafael Bernabeu Foundation —the social arm of the Instituto Bernabeu Group— carries out extensive social work, providing access to assisted reproduction techniques for couples without financial resources, as well as research scholarships to support the training of young scientists in Reproductive Medicine, among other social initiatives.
These commitments, together with the professionalism and experience that endorse our medical team, position Instituto Bernabeu as one of the most prestigious centers in this specialty.
RECOGNITIONS
The most important scientific societies have highlighted many of our advances and contributions to the advancement of Reproductive Medicine, including the following awards:
- FRM (American Foundation for Reproductive Medicine) Award for Young Investigator Award 2017.
- 2nd Award from the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM). 2012
- BFS (British Fertility Society) Award Best Young Clinician: “Vitamin D levels in oocyte donors are not predictive of reproductive success in egg donation treatments“. 2014
- IVF Agency of the year 2016 Awards from the IVF European clinic.
- National Award from the Spanish Fertility Society (SEF). 2010
- National Award from the Spanish Fertility Society (SEF). 2000
- National Award SEGO (Spanish Society for Gynaecology and Obstetricts) to the best work “ultrasound scans in gynaecology”. 2011
- ASEBIR (Asociación para el Estudio de la Biología de la Reproducción) Award for basic research: “Genotyping of the SNP R72P of the p53 Gene in patients with implantation failure and repeated miscarriages and its effect on the results of IVF cycles”. 2013
- ASEBIR (Association for the study of Reproduction Biology) Award for basic research: “Hibridación genómica comparada en célula única (SC CGH): Nueva herramienta para el screening genético preimplantacional”. 2009
- EMB-ASEBIR 2021 Award (Association for the Study of Reproduction Biology) to the study «The reliability of non-invasive preimplantation genetic diagnosis (niPGT-A) does not depend on the genetic analysis technique. 2021
- First Award of the Spanish Andrology Association (ASESA) to the best original research work: “Study of structural damage after sperm immobilization prior to intracytoplasmic sperm microinjection in teratozoospermic patients”. 2015
- ICIRA Awards (Merk Serono), in the category contribution of relevant data in the treatment of assisted reproduction. 2011
FERTIGENETICS
Instituto Bernabeu has its own genetics laboratories, not only to meet clinical demand but also to support research into new therapies and advanced diagnostics. As a result of this work, we have developed specialised genetic tests, such as:
