Our history
Our founding fertility specialists were involved in the first IVF babies born in Australia and Ireland and played pivotal roles in progressing the assisted reproductive services sector globally.
When it all began, we were there.
EVOLUTION
1982
Queensland Fertility Group founded
1989
Melbourne IVF founded
2002
IVFAustralia founded from merger of four Sydney based ART practices
2008
Quadrant acquires IVFAustralia and creates IVF Holdings Group
2008
IVF Holdings Group acquires Melbourne IVF
2009
IVF Holdings Group acquires Queensland Fertility Group
2010
IVF Holdings Group renamed to Virtus Health
2011
Acquire Fertility Gold Coast (regional QLD)
2011
Acquire Hunter IVF (regional NSW)
2012 January
The Fertility Centre 1st low cost clinic Springwood QLD
2012 October
The Fertility Centre opens Dandenong VIC
2013 March
The Fertility Centre opens Liverpool NSW
2013 June
Virtus Health listed on ASX
2013 May
The Fertility Centre opens Sunshine VIC
2013 December
Admitted to S&P/ASX200 index
2014 May
Acquire SIMS IVF Ireland
2014 November
Acquire Sunshine Coast QLD co-branded TFC/QFG
2014 December
SIMS opens Cork clinic mid year, acquires RotundaIVF
2014 December
Acquires Tas IVF
2015 January
Virtus Fertility Centre Singapore opens
2015 May
The Fertility Centre opens Wollongong NSW
2015 September
Acquire IDS Pathology Lab Virtus Diagnostics entity grows
2015 November
Tas IVF opens Launceston clinic
2016 May
Acquire Canberra Fertility Centre
2016 August
The Fertility Centre opens Gold Coast
2016 December
Acquires Aagaard Clinic Denmark
2018 February
Acquire Complete Fertility Centre (UK)
2018 June
Acquire Trianglen (Denmark)
2019 April
Transfer and collaboration agreements with Vitrolife for Ivy AI system
2020 May
Launch of global randomised controlled trial (RCT), to evaluate the effectiveness of artificial intelligence in embryo evaluation
2021 February
Collaboration announced with CooperSurgical, a leading international provider of fertility and genomic solutions.
2021 May
Collaboration announced with Drop Bio, aiming to track and explain the critical role that chronic inflammation plays in the success of ARS
2022 September
Virtus delists from the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) and transitions to Private Equity Firm, BGH Capital
2023 February
Doco-series, Big Miracles, premieres on Channel 9
2023 April
Virtus Health and UNSW Founders partner to launch a dedicated Women’s Health stream of the Health 10x Accelerator program
2023 August
Virtus expands in Singapore, opening affordable IVF clinic, IVF-SG
2023 November