Dr. Firuza Parikh is Director of the Department of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics at Jaslok Hospital and Research Centre, Mumbai. She completed her under-graduate and post-graduate medical education at Mumbai's KEM Seth G. S. Medical College respectively.

After training at at Yale as a postdoctoral researcher in Reproductive Medicine for four years, Dr. Firuza returned to India to set up and head the first in vitro fertilisation (IVF) centre in a private institution at Jaslok in 1989. She was a visiting faculty in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Yale University School of Medicine, USA, from 1999 to 2005.

In April 2000, Dr. Firuza was invited to be the founder-director of Reliance Life Sciences and was instrumental in setting up the embryonic stem cell facility, the skin and tissue engineering facility and the umbilical cord blood repository.

Ad Hoc Editor of the Journal of Fertility and Sterility, Dr. Parikh is also on the editorial board of the International Journal of Human Genetics. Dr. Parikh has several firsts to her credit including South-East Asia's first micromanipulation baby in 1994 and the first laser-hatching pregnancy in 1999.

More recently, she introduced the technique of Cumulus-Aided Embryo Transfer (CAT) for the first time in the world. She has over 100 scientific publications and has written several book chapters. Dr. Parikh's team is responsible for the birth of more than 2,200 babies!