Yuna Noguchi

About

Yuna Noguchi is an embryologist on the laboratory team at Hanaoka IVF Clinic (Shinagawa). She works in the clinic’s culture room on the daily handling of eggs and embryos — culture after fertilization, vitrification freezing and the routine quality operations that underpin every transfer decision at the clinic. Her work sits at the technical core of the clinic’s promise that patients’ eggs return to their bodies in the best possible condition.

Clinical Expertise

• Embryo culture: maintaining post-fertilization embryo development in the clinic’s incubation system, including time-lapse observation support
• Vitrification: freezing and storage of embryos and eggs using rapid vitrification in liquid-nitrogen tanks at -196 C
• Laboratory operations and quality control: daily workflow management of the embryology lab under the clinic’s double-check and RIWitness electronic-witness protocols

Why Choose Yuna Noguchi

Hanaoka enforces an unusually strict internal standard: staff train daily, and only those who pass the clinic’s handling examinations — the “pass-the-test” gate for working with oocytes — are allowed to touch eggs and embryos. Noguchi-san’s role exists because of that system, and her certified clinical embryology credentials back up the hands-on skill it demands. For patients, embryologist quality is inseparable from IVF outcomes: culture conditions, freeze-thaw technique and lab process discipline directly determine embryo survival, which is why the clinic keeps both embryologists on-site rather than outsourcing laboratory work.

Certifications

• Certified Clinical Embryologist (Japan)
• Certification from the Japanese Society for Clinical Embryology

Suitable For

• IVF patients: every embryo these patients receive is cultured and handled by the clinic’s certified embryology team.
• Egg and embryo freezing patients: vitrification technique and long-term storage discipline are the embryologist’s direct responsibility.
• Lab-quality-focused patients: families comparing clinics on laboratory standards can rely on the clinic’s competency-tested handling policy.