Modern Families Make Modern Babies.
For over 25 years, NYU Langone Fertility Center has been a world leader in providing compassionate and efficient fertility treatment. We understand that every path to parenthood is unique, and we collaborate with our patients to provide data-driven guidance at each step. From your first consultation to your first congratulations, we're here to support you with world class family-building options.
Options preserved.
If you are considering having children in the future, egg freezing may be a great way to preserve your fertility options. At NYU Langone Fertility Center, feel confident placing your trust in one of the most experienced teams in the United States. We’ve completed more than 3,000 egg freezing cycles to date, and we currently perform over 450 cycles per year. Our patients have welcomed over 200 live births from previously frozen eggs. Whenever you’re ready to take the next step, we’re here to support you.
Making Parenthood Possible.
NYU Langone Fertility Center has lovingly welcomed over 1,600 babies born with the assistance of donor eggs. We are dedicated to helping individuals and couples achieve their dream of parenthood, and have helped thousands of families grow with our innovative technology, extensive selection of donors, and compassionate care for each patient. Ready to explore building your family with help from donor eggs or sperm? We’re here to help.
Help a Family Build a Family.
If you’re considering donating your eggs to help someone else achieve their dream of having a child, thank you. You are creating an incredible, life changing opportunity for someone who can’t conceive on their own. At NYU Langone Fertility Center, our dedicated physicians and staff make each donor’s safety, privacy, respect, and dignity our top priority.
Egg Donor Eligibility Requirements
Age 21 – 30
Physically & emotionally healthy
Complete medical history on biological family members
Nonsmoker, no history of substance abuse
Resources and info
Overview: Egg Donation Process
Compensation for Egg Donors
NYU Donor Egg Team
Apply to Become an Egg Donor
Love Makes a Family.
At NYU Langone Fertility Center, we value all families with an understanding of the love and commitment it takes to make one. We are proud to serve all members of the LGBTQ community: we work with all individuals, straight, gay, married, unmarried, partnered or single, to translate the love they feel into the family they desire. We’ve been leading the way in New York City since we were founded, seeing the changes both social and technological, that have made modern family building possible for ALL people to achieve the dream of parenthood.
We provide world-class science and collaborative fertility care to help people have healthy babies, when they’re ready.
At NYU Langone Fertility Center, we're on a mission to help educate women and men about their reproductive health and provide them with the best options, science, and care so everyone can have the opportunity to have a healthy baby when they are ready. We recognize that you have a choice in care providers, and we are committed to providing compassionate, individualized, and cost-effective service. We’re happy to go at your pace and answer any questions you may have.
Our Fertility Specialists
Alan Berkeley, MD
Jennifer Blakemore, MD, MSc
Shannon DeVore, MD
Elizabeth Fino, MD
James Grifo, MD, PhD
Brooke Hodes-Wertz, MD, MPH
David Keefe, MD
Frederick Licciardi, MD
Egg Donors Make Families Come True.
If you are considering donating your eggs
to help someone else achieve their dream
of having a child, thank you. Women who
donate eggs provide the gift of possibility
to families who are unable to conceive
on their own.
Human Centered
We are committed to transparency, education, and compassion at every step in the egg donation process. The safety and comfort of our donors is our top priority.
Leaders in Freezing Technology
We are industry leaders in ovarian stimulation, egg retrieval, and egg-freezing technology, ensuring all eggs retrieved maintain their quality throughout the process.
Egg Donors Make Families Come True.
If you are considering donating your eggs
to help someone else achieve their dream
of having a child, thank you. Women who
donate eggs provide the gift of possibility
to families who are unable to conceive
on their own.
Human Centered
We are committed to transparency, education, and compassion at every step in the egg donation process. The safety and comfort of our donors is our top priority.
Leaders in Freezing Technology
We are industry leaders in ovarian stimulation, egg retrieval, and egg-freezing technology, ensuring all eggs retrieved maintain their quality throughout the process.
Best. Decision. Ever.
Many people who desperately want to build a family cannot conceive a child with their own eggs due to a wide variety of fertility problems. Whether these issues are the result of cancer, age, poor egg quality, genetic disease, unknown or other causes, these individuals depend upon donor eggs to realize their dream of family. Egg donation creates a life-changing opportunity to help people become parents.
1,600+
Families created with the help of donor eggs at NYULFC from 1995 to today.
$10K
In compensation for your time and effort throughout each egg donation.
At NYU Langone Fertility Center, our dedicated physicians and staff make our donors’ safety, privacy, and dignity our top priority.
How it Works: Egg Donation
Application & Consultation
If you are between 21 and 30 years of age, you may be a candidate for egg donation. Once you complete the online application, we will schedule an appointment to evaluate your overall and reproductive health, genetic history, and psychological stability (all testing is provided at no charge to you).
Preparation
If you are found to be an ideal egg donor candidate and you want to proceed with the donation, you will begin preparation for ovarian stimulation. Our dedicated nurses will teach you how to perform medication injections and we will provide all necessary fertility medications.
Stimulation & Retrieval
Egg production will be stimulated with daily fertility medications. Over the course of approximately two weeks, you will visit NYU Langone Fertility Center where we will monitor the growth of your eggs using an ultrasound. After you receive a final medication prep, your eggs will be retrieved under anesthesia. After your eggs are retrieved, a follow-up appointment will be scheduled to ensure you're comfortable, happy, and healthy.
Where It Happens
When and if you decide to donate your eggs, the entire egg donation process will take place at our state-of-the-art fertility center located at 660 First Avenue, New York, NY.
Egg Donor Compensation
Successful egg donors are awarded $10,000 in compensation for their time and effort throughout the donation process. Following each egg donation cycle, egg donors will receive a 1099 tax form from the Fertility Center in order to report this $10,000 income to the Internal Revenue Service.
Egg Donation Retrieval
The stimulation process spans about 14-days and includes bloodwork and ultrasounds to monitor your ovaries and hormone levels. When ready for removal, you will be given sedation while the eggs are retrieved during a 10-20 minute surgical procedure.
Testing service
Free
Medication & fees
Free
Post-retrieval compensation
$10,000
NYULFC Egg Donor
I felt so lucky to work with the NYU Langone Fertility Center donor egg team.
Not only are they perhaps the most advanced and forward-thinking fertility specialists, but they also exhibited incredible empathy throughout my donation process. Everyone was upbeat, straightforward, and caring at every step.
NYULFC Egg Donor
The staff went above and beyond to make sure that I was as comfortable as possible with the entire process.
I am so thankful to all of them. It is rare to find this level of humanity and positivity in medicine today.
NYULFC Egg Donor
Words can’t describe the feeling of knowing how I’ve potentially changed a family’s life forever.
This is why I donate.
Still Have Questions?
Questions? Concerns? Ready to get started? Reach out—we’re here for you.
We're here to go at your pace and answer any questions you have.
1 (212)-263-8990
Fertility FAQ
Check out our Frequently Asked Questions—submitted by hundreds of patients over 25+ years—to learn more about fertility care at NYU Langone Fertility Center.
