Fertility Preservation Toolkit

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Infertility and Advancing Therapeutic Solutions for IVF

You’re Invited

The Alliance for Fertility Preservation, in partnership with the Cade Foundation, invites you to join us! EL-PFDD is a FDA-developed, systematic approach to ensure that patients’ experiences, perspectives, needs, and priorities are captured and meaningfully incorporated into drug development and evaluation processes.

Externally Led-Patient Focused Drug Development (EL-PFDD) Meeting

March 26, 2026 | 10am to 3:30pm EDT

The College Park Marriott
3501 University Blvd
Hyattsville, MD 20783

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Make your voice heard!

Submit a comment below for possible inclusion in the EL-PFDD meeting and/or subsequent Voice of the Patient report. (You will only be identified by first name, last initial or may request to remain anonymous.) These are prompts/ideas for you to consider:

  • When did you become aware of your infertility or potential for fertility loss?
  • What has had the biggest impact on your life (physical, emotional, and/or psychosocial)?
  • Does infertility or concerns about your future fertility affect daily life? Has this changed over time?
  • Are there activities, goals, or life plans that have been altered as a result?
  • When you think about the future, what worries or uncertainties concern you most?

  • What treatments have you/your loved one used to try to preserve fertility or to build a family? How well did these work?
  • What are/were the most significant downsides (physical and/or emotional) side effects?
  • How did you weigh the pros/cons of fertility treatment?
  • Would you participate in clinical trials for fertility-protective or restorative therapies?
  • What improvements or types of therapies would you like to see in the future?

Why Attend?

The EL-PFDD meeting is all about YOU!

This meeting is for patients, caregivers, loved ones, and anyone with a lived experience of infertility and IVF. By joining this virtual meeting, you will be able to hear first-hand stories from a broad range of infertility and IVF patients and share your comments and concerns with key stakeholders, including:

  • The FDA
  • Industry Representatives
  • Clinicians and Researchers
  • Patient Advocates

Please contact us for more information at info@a4fp.org

Want to learn more about the upcoming EL-PFDD?
View the EL-PFDD Community Outreach Session

Thank You

We are able to organize this event and bring patients together from across the country to share their experiences thanks to the generous support of our corporate sponsor, EMD Serono, and through a partnership with the Cade Foundation.