
Bec Holmes, PhD, HCLD
Embryology Advisor, Scientific Advisory Board
Dr. Bec Holmes, PhD, HCLD is Senior Vice President of Lab Operations at CCRM Fertility, where she leads laboratory operations across the CCRM network of IVF laboratories. She oversees protocol standardization, staff training, quality control, and risk management across the network’s embryology, andrology, and endocrinology labs, ensuring consistent quality and chain-of-custody at scale.
Before her current role, Dr. Holmes served for more than five years as East Coast Corporate Laboratory Director at CCRM, where she helped establish the CCRM Boston laboratory and directed multiple labs across the region. Previously, she was Technical Director of the IVF Laboratory at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and earlier spent eight years at Boston IVF as an embryologist, Cryobiology Supervisor, and Off-Site Laboratory Director. She began her career in research, completing postdoctoral work at Cornell University before moving into clinical embryology.
A board-certified High-Complexity Clinical Laboratory Director, Dr. Holmes is a frequent invited speaker at regional, national, and international meetings, including on network-wide approaches to managing laboratory risk, and has contributed to peer-reviewed publications in reproductive medicine.
Education: BSc in Biomedical Sciences, Brunel University London; DPhil in Genetics, University of Oxford.
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