Robin M. Skory, MD, PhD
Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
Penn Fertility Care
Make an appointmentCall 800-789-7366
Penn Medicine Provider

About me

  • Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
  • Instructor A of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Education and training

  • Medical School: Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
  • Residency: University of California San Francisco
  • Residency: University of Pennsylvania Health System

Insurance accepted

My Locations

Penn Medicine hospital privileges

  • Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Pennsylvania Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Penn Presbyterian Medical Center: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Princeton Medical Center: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Dr. Skory is a Penn Medicine physician.

Qualifications and experience

Treatments and Conditions

My research

Plachta N, Bissiere S, Domingo-Muelas A, Simon C, Skory RM, Hernandez B Advances with New Imaging Technologies , Atlas of Human Embryo Development https://www.scribd.com/document/909981009/Atlas-of-Human-Embryo-Development-Advances-With-New-Imaging-Technologies, DOI: 10.1201/9781003479505: 2026

Akizawa H, Domingo-Muelas A, Pardo-Figuerez M, Hernandez B, Ardestani G, Skory RM, Venturas M, Tetlak P, Bissiere S, Sakkas D, Simon C, Plachta N Capturing aberrant cell behaviors producing defects in human embryos via live imaging , Science Advances, 11(47): 2025

Hernandez B, Tetlak P, Domingo-Muelas A, Akizawa H, Skory RM, Ardestani G, Biro M, Bissiere S, Sakkas D, Plachta N Actin organizes chromosomes and microtubules to ensure mitotic fidelity in the preimplantation embryo , Science, 388(6749): 2025

Blake Hernandez, Piotr Tetlak, Ana Domingo-Muelas, Hiroki Akizawa, Robin M Skory, Goli Ardestani, Mate Biro, Xiaolei Liu, Stephanie Bissiere, Denny Sakkas, Nicolas Plachta Actin organizes chromosomes and microtubules to ensure mitotic fidelity in the preimplantation embryo. , Science, 388(6749): 2025

Skory RM, Domingo-Muelas A, Declercq S, Vandenberghe W, Tetlak P, Hernandez B, Stoop D, Biro M, Heindryckx B, Plachta N Capturing the events of mouse and human fertilization in real time. , (in submission): 2025

Akizawa H, Domingo-Muelas A, Pardo-Figuerez M, Hernandez B, Ardestani G, Skory RM, Venturas M, Tetlak P, Bissiere S, Sakkas D, Simon C, Plachta N Capturing aberrant cell behaviors producing defects in human embryos via live imaging (resubmitted with minor revisions, Science Advances). , Science Advances: 2025

Skory RM Revisiting trophectoderm-inner cell mass lineage segregation in the mammalian preimplantation embryo. , Human Reprod, 39(9): 2024,1889-1898

Treat J, Nowakowski K, Domingo-Muelas A, Hernandez B, Skory R Illuminating the Human Embryo , National Geographic Magazine: 2024,82-83

Liu L, Oura S, Markham Z, Hamilton JN, Skory RM, Li L, Sakurai M, Wang L, Pinzon-Arteaga CA, Plachta N, Hon GC, Wu J Modeling post-implantation stages of human development into early organogenesis with stem-cell-derived peri-gastruloids. , Cell, 186(18):3776-3792.e16: 2023

Domingo-Muelas A*, Skory RM*, Moverley AA, Ardestani G, Pomp O, Rubio C, Tetlak P, Hernandez B, Rhon-Calderon EA, Navarro-Sanchez L, Garcia-Pascual CM, Bissiere S, Bartolomei MS, Sakkas D, Simon C, Plachta N Human embryo live-imaging reveals nuclear DNA shedding during blastocyst expansion and biopsy. , Cell, 186(15):3166-3181.e18: 2023

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