Donor Eggs

The UI Center for Advanced Reproductive Care has an anonymous oocyte (egg) donation program. Our program also facilitates directed egg donation to an identified recipient. Oocyte donors are evaluated for psychological, medical, and genetic health and are tested for sexually transmitted diseases. Anonymous oocyte donors must be 21 to 34 years of age. We are currently not recruiting donors.

Donor Sperm

The UI Center for Advanced Reproductive Care staff will help couples prepare the documents needed to purchase anonymously donated sperm from a commercial sperm bank. Once the sperm arrives at the Reproductive Testing Laboratory, the sperm will be stored in liquid nitrogen until your procedure. The program also facilitates testing and sperm cryopreservation for directed sperm donors.

Donor Embryos

Couples may opt to cryopreserve their non-transferred embryos for future transfers. For a variety of reasons, couples may choose not to transfer their cryopreserved embryos. The Embryo Donation Program gives couples the opportunity to donate the embryos. Donors are evaluated for psychological, medical and genetic health and tested for sexually transmitted diseases. Couples receiving anonymously donated embryos are prioritized based on need for donor gametes, previous childbearing, and previous infertility therapy.