Director and Founder of IRM - Fedir Dakhno Professor, Honored Worker of Science and Technique of the Ukraine, member of ESHRE (1994), ESHRE Advisory Committee, American Society for Reproductive Medicine - ASRM (1995), Scientific Committee of A PART (1998).

Due to the professional expertise of Professor F.V. Dakhno and his colleagues, the following significant achievements in reproductive medicine in the Ukraine have been accomplished:

• 1984 - First fertilization of woman's egg (in vitro) in the Ukraine.
  
  
• 1991 - First baby born in the Ukraine after IVF program (Kharkov City).
  
  
• 1992 - First infertility treatment center established in Kiev. This center was established by Doctor F.V. Dakhno, and named "Laboratory Dakhno Ltd."
  
  
• 1993 - First baby in the Ukraine delivered as a result of direct intraperitoneal insemination.
  
  
• 1994 - First clinic of assisted reproductive technologies in Kiev established by Dr. Dahkno as an expansion of the achievements made at "Laboratory Dakhno, Ltd." This facility is named the Institute of Reproductive Medicine" (IRM).
  
  
• 1995 - Delivery of first baby in the Ukraine of woman with removed ovaries, using donor eggs.
  
  
• 1997 - Delivery of the first baby in the Ukraine using ICSI techniques.