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Dr Fab Horta Nunez

Dr Fab Horta Nunez

Senior Lecturer
Medicine & Health
School of Clinical Medicine

Dr Fabrizzio Horta is a medical reproductive scientist who started his career as a research Andrologist. He has been involved in IVF as a clinical Andrologist, clinical embryologist and lately as Scientific Supervisor of R&D. He has undertaken studies in Medical Science, Medicine, Master of Clinical Embryology and PhD studies at Monash University in Melbourne, including a fellowship in molecular and clinical Andrology as well as training in biomedical innovation and entrepreneurship.
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E-mail
Fabrizzio.Horta@unsw.edu.au
Location
Level 4, Room 445 Wallace Wurth Building Botany Street Kensington NSW 2052 & Level 1 Royal Hospital for Women Barker Street Randwick NSW 2031

  • 1.- Ferring Australia grant for $23,000 AUD for the study “Oocyte DNA repair capacity in infertile couples”. Chief investigator: Dr Fabrizzio Horta. Associate investigator: Dr Sally Catt, A/Prof Peter Temple-Smith and Prof Beverley Vollenhoven. November 2019.

  • 2.- Monash IVF grant for $35,000 AUD for the study “Which factors are associated with recurrent implantation failure?”. Chief investigator: Dr Fabrizzio Horta. Associate investigator: Prof Ben W Mol, Dr Sally Catt, A/Prof Peter Temple-Smith and Prof Beverley Vollenhoven. December 2019.

  • 3.- Monash IVF grant for $25,000 AUD for the study “Novel methods of cryopreservation of ovarian tissue”. Chief investigator: Dr Sally Catt. Dr Fabrizzio Horta, Dr Kiri Bielby, A/Prof Peter Temple-Smith and Prof Beverley Vollenhoven. November 2019.

  • 4.- International Ferring COVID-19 investigational grant in reproductive medicine and maternal health for $8,500 AUD for the study “Incidence of natural conception in infertile couples schedule for ART treatment during fertility clinic COVID-19 in Australia/New Zealand”. Chief investigator: Dr Fabrizzio Horta, Elizabeth Cutting, Prof Ben W Mol. June 2020.

  • 5.- Non-invasive metabolic imaging of oocytes and early embryo development. Chief investigators: Dr Fabrizzio Horta, Dr Sally Catt, Prof Beverley Vollenhoven, Prof Adrian Neild, Dr Reza Nosrati, Dr Victor Cadarso. FSANZ grant awarded ($35,000 AUD),

  • 6.- Machine learning for Clinical Decision support in in-vitro fertilisation. Chief investigators: Dr Fabrizzio Horta, Dr Hamid Rezatofighi, Dr Sally Catt, Prof JianFei Cai, Prof Beverley Vollenhoven. Monash Data Future Institute grant awarded ($50,000 AUD).

  • 7.- Assessing the clinical impact of pharmacogenomics in IVF using a novel clinical decision support system integrating whole genome sequencing and artificial intelligence. Vollenhoven, B., Smith M M, V., Horta, F., Sacks, G., Coman, D. J., Gardner, D., Wang, R., Lin, H., Bi, M., Stocker, S. L., Grosser, M., Tipper, S. & Venter, D. J. The Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF), NHRMC. $2,959,360 AUD + partner contribution of $2.208M (23Strands + Virtus Health).

  • 8.- Non-invasive metabolic IVF, a novel strategy to revolutionise infertility treatments. Dr Fabrizzio Horta, A/Prof Victor Cadarso & Prof Adrian Neild. Monash Institute of Medical Engineering Seed Fund grant, Nov 2023 $50k.

  • 9.- Exploring Artificial intelligence for automating variant curation and big data linkage in reproductive genetics; towards preconception precision medicine in assisted reproductive technologies. Horta, F., Alinejad-Rokny, H., Marzbanrad, F., Lorber Rolnik, D., Shrestha, J., Venter, D. & Lin, H. $122.5K.

 

Total grants funding: $3,308,360 AUD

  • The best student of Medical Technology in 2005, Diego Portales University. Santiago, Chile. $500 AUD
  • Chilean master scholarship “Becas Chile para cursar magister en el extranjero” CONICYT, Ministerio de Educación, Gobierno de Chile, 2012. $80,000 AUD
  • Chilean PhD scholarship “Becas Chile para cursar doctorado en el extranjero” CONICYT, Ministerio de Educación, Gobierno de Chile, 2016 (not used).
  • Monash Graduate Scholarship (MGS) for stipends during PhD studies, 2016. Total funding: $105,000 AUD
  • Monash International Postgraduate Research Scholarship (MIPRS) PhD studies, 2016.
  • Faculty Graduate Research International Scholarship (FGRIS), for PhD studies, 2016. Total funding: $135,000 AUD
  • Scientist in Reproductive Technologies (SIRT) Student Travel Award ($500), 2017.
  • Scientist in Reproductive Technologies (SIRT) Student Travel Award ($500), 2018.
  • Best oral presentation Student/Early career researcher, SIRT-Midyear meeting worth in $2000 AUD, May 2018.
  • Best research presentation at EPRD 30-year symposium, Alumnae meeting, Prato, Italy, worth in $1000 AUD July 2018.
  • Best oral presentation in conference Niuvida, Lima, Peru, 2018, worth in 1000 USD.
  • Monash University Postgraduate Travel Award ($2,000), 2019.
  • Award worth $8,000 AUD towards obtaining “Certificate in Bio-innovation and entrepreneurship in biomedical science”, SPARK program, University of Technology of Sydney, September 2019.
  • Monash Postgraduate Publication Award ($4,924), 2020.
  • Monash accelerator program Pitch award ($2,000), 2020.
  • Young Investigator Award ASPIRE conference ($700) April 2022.
  • ARCS exchange session prize at SIRT/FSANZ conference ($5,000), July 2022.
  • Fellowship FMNHS ECR award $35,000
  • Outstanding Young researcher award. A microsystem for non-invasive imaging and simultaneous multi-biomarker 3d imaging. Erick J. Vargas-Ordaz, Terrance Lam, Bonan Liu, Fabrizzio Horta, Michelle L. Halls, Adrian Neild, and Victor J. Cadarso. July 2023, Kyoto, Japan.
  • Best overall presentation, Melbourne emerging leaders in biomedical research, August 2023. $0.4K
  • Finalist in David Healey award session, SRB Conference 2023, Brisbane, Australia, Nov 2023. $0.5k

Total awards funding: $390,024 AUD