Prenatal Diagnostic Testing for Genetic Disorders: The revolution of the Non-Invasive Prenatal Test

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Gian Carlo Di Renzo is Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Maternal Fetal Medicine Coordinator of  the Reproductive and Perinatal Medicine Center at the University of  Perugia and Founder and Director of the Permanent International and European School of Perinatal and Reproductive Medicine (PREIS) in Florence ( www.preischool.eu ) . He is also full Professor at the Dept of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the I.M. Sechenov First State University of Moscow since 2019  and in 2022 he was also full Professor at Wayne State University Medical School and distinguished scholar of the PRB Unit of NIH-NICHD based in Detroit USA. Since 2022 he is director of  the Womens Medicine Global Library ( GLOWM www.glowm.com ) the educational platform  of FIGO  after being  General Secretary of FIGO for two terms (2012-2018) . He was Secretary general and now  co-President  of the New European Surgical Academy (NESA www.nesacademy.org ) since 2010. He holds multiple other positions including Founder Editor of the Journal of Maternal Fetal and Neonatal Medicine corresponding Editor of the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Hon Editor in Chief of the Chinese Journal (in English language) Maternal Fetal-Medicine. He was an Advisory Board Member for the March of Dimes Foundation based in New York ( 2012-2018) . Further he is honorary member of 43 different scientific  Societies among which  a Fellow ad eundem of RCOG and a Honorary Fellow of American ACOG and of Indian ICOG. He was also member of the WHO Strategic Committee on Maternal and Perinatal health. Prof. Di Renzo is an Honorary Professor and Doctor Honoris Causa in Medicine and Surgery  at respectively 15 and 6  different Universities throughout Europe Asia South America and the United States. He is an Academic Member of the Romanian and Russian Academy of Sciences. Prof. Di Renzo has received six awards for his work in humanreproduction and maternal-infant's health scientific research and teaching. He has organized more than 500 international congresses and courses some of these are held regularly (Diabetes in Pregnancy: DIP Birth World Congress of Maternal Fetal and Neonatal Medicine TWINS etc). His scientific production comprises over 1500 papers of which more than 480 have been published in peer reviewed international journals  ( HI 61; i10 index 221)  and more than 100 books. He has been an invited speaker in over 1600 national and international congresses and meetings and in academic courses in over 120 countries.