Primecare Wins Again

Building a Deliberate Culture of ART Research

Two years after winning the inaugural Mrs. Bobo-Kayode Memorial Foundation Best Embryology Abstract Award at the 2024 AFRH Annual Conference, Primecare Fertility Clinic has won the prestigious award again in 2026.

This year’s recognition came on an even bigger stage. For the first time, the African Federation of Fertility Societies (AFFS) and the Association for Fertility and Reproductive Health (AFRH) held a joint conference, bringing together a major gathering of fertility professionals and high-level international participation in Abuja around the theme “Fertility Frontiers: Global Innovations & Advances in Human Reproduction.” The scientific programme included participation from leading international reproductive-health organisations including IFFS, ESHRE and ASRM.

For Primecare, winning again is more than another award. It reinforces something we are deliberately building, a culture in which research, data and continuous improvement are used to make fertility care safer, more evidence-based and ultimately better for our patients.

This Time: The Fatigued Embryologist

Primecare’s award-winning research, “The Fatigued Embryologist,” explored an often-overlooked aspect of IVF, the wellbeing and workload of the professionals behind the embryology laboratory.

The study analysed 1,586 IVF-ET cycles conducted between 2023 and 2025, examining variations in pregnancy outcomes, embryo quality and workload patterns.

Rather than establishing fatigue as a direct cause of variations in outcomes, the findings highlighted the need to pay greater attention to workload, occupational wellbeing and other human factors in ART laboratories and called for further Nigerian research in this emerging area.

The research was presented by Embryologist Omogiade Omoyemen Joy, representing Primecare Fertility Clinic during the conference’s Embryology Abstract oral presentation session. AFFS-x-AFRH-2026-Schedule-compr…

For Primecare, It Is Deliberate

Our inaugural award-winning research in 2024 explored AI-assisted sperm quality assessment. In 2026, we turned our attention to the human factor in embryology.

Different questions, but the same philosophy: clinical practice should generate questions, data should help us investigate them, and what we learn should return to improve patient care.

For us, that last part matters most.

Behind every dataset is a patient or couple hoping for a successful outcome. Research helps us look critically at how we work—our laboratory processes, technologies, people and outcomes—and identify opportunities to make care safer, more consistent, more evidence-driven and more responsive to our patients’ needs.

That is why research at Primecare is deliberate.

From Research Recognition to Research Infrastructure

And our commitment is moving beyond conference abstracts and awards.

As Primecare prepares to move from Area 8, Garki, to its new permanent site in Durumi, Abuja, we are deliberately creating dedicated space for ART research within the new facility.

Our vision is for fertility care, embryology, research, training and quality improvement to work together—allowing questions arising from everyday patient care to be investigated, lessons to be translated into better practice, and Nigerian data to contribute more meaningfully to the advancement of reproductive medicine.

The move to Durumi is therefore more than a change of location. It represents the next phase in Primecare’s commitment to research, providing the infrastructure to further strengthen and expand the research culture already being developed within the organisation. By integrating research with fertility care, embryology, training and quality improvement, Primecare aims to translate evidence and learning into better care and better outcomes for the people who entrust their fertility journey to us..

The inaugural Bobo-Kayode Award in 2024 encouraged us.

Winning it again in 2026 strengthens our resolve.

For Primecare, research is not simply about recognition.

It is about learning, improving and providing better fertility care.

Congratulations to Embryologist Omogiade Omoyemen Joy, the research team and the entire Primecare Fertility Clinic family on another important milestone.