About Our Egg Donors
We offer a large, diverse selection of fully screened, college educated, immediately available egg donors. Each donor undergoes a comprehensive screening process that takes place right here at the Genetics & IVF Institute. You will find extensive information readily available to you, including childhood and current photos of each egg donor.
Your donor egg coordinator is available to guide you through the search, but the selection of the right egg donor for you is up to you. Click here to search our online egg donor database.
Who Are Our Egg Donors?
Our egg donors are healthy women between the ages of 19 and 33. They are college-educated and have good family health histories. Our “doctoral donors” hold or are pursuing advanced degrees in medicine or other academic specialties. Other egg donors are talented musicians, artists, and athletes. Only a very small percentage of donors who apply are actually accepted into the program because few meet our rigorous standards.
Why do our donors choose to donate their eggs? Click here to read personal stories from three of our egg donors.
You can search for a donor based on specific criteria including ethnicity, physical characteristics, educational history, and many other characteristics. New egg donors are added to the donor database frequently. Donor profiles, childhood photos, and other information are all accessible at the click of a button. Click here to search our online egg donor database.
Information to Help You Select an Egg Donor
GIVF is one of the few programs to offer such an extensive amount of information on each egg donor. Understanding how important the choice of an egg donor is to our patients, GIVF provides patients with the following information about each egg donor:
- Current photos
- Childhood photos
- Audio interviews
- Blood type
- Ethnic background of donor’s mother and father
- Height
- Weight
- Whether pregnancies have been achieved
- Body build
- Eye color
- Hair color and texture
- Years of education and major areas of study
- Occupation
- Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) scores and grade point averages
- Special interests
- Family medical history
- Essays by donors
- Personality typing based on the Keirsey test
Egg Donor Screening 
Before they are accepted into the program, egg donors are interviewed and must pass a physical examination. The GIVF team of reproductive endocrinologists, geneticists, and genetic counselors studies each donor’s individual and family health histories, medical tests, and other information to ensure that donors meet our highly selective standards. Egg donors also undergo a psychological assessment of their commitment to the donor program and their appropriateness as a donor. They are extensively tested for genetic and infectious diseases, including the following:
- HIV
- Hepatitis
- Sexually transmitted diseases such as syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia
- Full chromosome analysis (karyotype)
- DNA testing for Cystic Fibrosis and Fragile X
- Appropriate genetic testing based on genetic risk factors such as sickle cell disease, Tay Sachs, Gaucher’s, and Canavan disease
- Fertility evaluation and hormone testing.
Only a small percentage of egg donors who apply are actually accepted into the program. Egg donors who have completed and passed the medical screening are added to the egg donor database and can be selected (matched) by prospective recipients. Unlike many egg donor agencies, egg donors and donor recipients alike receive the same continuity of quality care from GIVF physicians and staff throughout the egg donation cycle.
Click here to search our online egg donor database.
