Professor Smitz is an Emeritus Professor at Faculty of Medicine & Pharmacy; Honorary Professor at San Marcos University in LIMA –Peru; CSO of Lavima Fertility Inc, and CMO of Fertiga NV.  Professor Smitz Johan is specialty in Clinical Pathology/Biochemistry/ Radio-Isotopes. He sub-specialised in Reproductive Medicine on “The use of GnRH agonists in IVF”. He  obtained a degree in Andrology from the University Pierre et Marie Curie- Paris VI France.  From 1986-2020 he has  been the head of the Endocrine Laboratory of the University Hospital. He became Professor of Endocrine Physiology and Reproductive Medicine in 1997 at VUB. He founded the Follicle Biology (FOBI) Research Laboratory in 1997 and has been member of the Steering Committee of the Centre for Reproductive Medicine (CRG at UZBrussel). Johan is Co-Founder of Lavima and Fertiga, two startup companies aiming to increase access to ART.  His publications have received a career total of more than  25800 citations.