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

2020 August

Launch of new strategic vision, to be the global leader in Precision Fertility

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

Virtus Health, 23Strands and Monash University secure $3m federal government grant for world-first study into genomic sequencing in IVF