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3 unusual facts about Ricardo Asch


Ricardo Asch

In 1995, the 'Orange County Register broke the story that Asch — then Chief of the University of California, Irvine's Center for Reproductive Health — and his two partners were misusing human embryos, and harvesting and transplanting human eggs without patient consent.

Asch - who owned an entertainment company at the time of the scandal - was one of the producers of the Andre Agassi and Nick Bollettieri intrstuctional tennis video Attack.

The Orange County Register

It won additional Pulitzers in 1989 for beat reporting by Edward Humes on U.S. military problems with night-vision goggles and in 1996 for an investigation into Ricardo Asch's fertility clinics.



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