Bayan Osmani

Laboratory Manager

Specialties:

Embryology

Training

Bayan is registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) as a Clinical Scientist and holds ACE certification as a Clinical Embryologist and Laboratory Manager. She has passed the FRCPath examinations in Reproductive Science. She also holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Leadership and Management in Healthcare Science from the University of Manchester, which she completed as part of the Higher Specialist Scientist Training (HSST) programme.

Her expertise spans clinical embryology, laboratory leadership, quality improvement and clinical governance. She has led patient safety investigations and turned what was learned into practical improvements in laboratory care.

Every embryo in our laboratory represents someone’s hopes for their family. I’m proud to lead a team that combines scientific rigour with compassion, helping patients feel informed, supported and confident in their care.

Career

Bayan began her career at Homerton University Hospital. She then moved to the University of Aberdeen, where her research focused on time-lapse embryo imaging. She gained HCPC registration while working at Bourn Hall. She then joined the Assisted Conception Unit at Guy’s and St Thomas’, where she helped set up an ovarian tissue cryopreservation service for patients needing fertility preservation.

She later returned to Homerton in senior clinical and leadership roles, including Acting Lead Embryologist, and then took a secondment at Cambridge IVF. Her work has included improving quality, strengthening laboratory systems and developing staff. At Tunbridge Wells, she promotes a collaborative culture where scientific precision, openness and continuous learning underpin patient care.

Research and innovation

Bayan’s research interests centre on non-invasive embryo assessment and the responsible introduction of new technologies into fertility care. She supported, and later led, laboratory delivery of a national randomised controlled trial of time-lapse imaging in IVF. She has published work on embryo assessment and the timing of early embryo development.

She is also interested in the ethics of reproductive innovation and took part in a Wellcome Trust-supported citizens’ jury on human genome editing.

Membership of professional bodies