Hanoi, June 14 -- Nearly three decades after adopting in vitro fertilisation (IVF) from France, Vietnamese doctors have for the first time transferred an assisted reproductive technology back to the country that gave them the modern fertility treatment.

Biphasic IVM delivery

In early April 2026, Assoc. Prof. Vuong Thi Ngoc Lan, Vice Rector and head of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the Ho Chi Minh City University of Medicine and Pharmacy, and Le Hoang Anh, Lab Director at the My Duc Hospital, travelled to Marseille to guide the rollout of a biphasic in vitro maturation (IVM) technique at Saint Joseph Hospital.

French doctors had visited Vietnam four years earlier to study the biphasic IVM model. Upon their return, they...