Augusta, GA – Atlanta physician J. Todd Spradlin, MD, and Atlanta scientist Michael Tucker, PhD, HCLD, FIBiol, were recently named to the Xytex International Board of Directors. Xytex International is headquartered in Augusta, Ga.

Dr. Spradlin is Chief Medical and Laboratory Director at Xytex International and also chairs the Xytex Medical Advisory Board. After graduating from St. Andrews College in North Carolina, Dr. Spradlin earned his Doctor of Medicine degree from Emory University. He completed a three-year internal medicine residency at Emory University-affiliated hospitals in 1998. From 1998 to 2000 he worked along with three other physicians in Chattanooga, Tenn., to establish satellite offices for a large multi-specialty group practice while serving as a staff physician in internal medicine. Beginning in 2000, he joined the staff of Northside Hospital in Atlanta. Dr. Spradlin has served as Medical Director of Xytex Corporation since 1997 and is responsible for providing medical oversight of its sperm donor program and to assist in development of related policies.

Dr. Tucker is Scientific Director and Co-Founder of Georgia Reproductive Specialists in Atlanta. He is also Laboratory Director at Shady Grove Fertility Reproductive Science Center in Rockville, Md.; Off-site Laboratory Director at the Mississippi Fertility Institute in Jackson, Miss.; Off-site Laboratory Director at Reproductive Associates of Delaware in Wilmington, Del.; Scientific Consultant at IntegraMed America in Purchase, NY; Scientific Consultant at Reproductive Science Associates in Mineola, Long Island, NY; Scientific Director at Fertility Centers of Illinois in Chicago, Ill.; and Off-site Laboratory Director at Maine Reproductive Health Center in Portland, Me. Dr. Tucker has published more than 125 peer-reviewed papers and speaks internationally on the topic of infertility and IVF. His research interests include assisted reproductive technologies and IVF, as well as oocyte and embryo cryopreservation.

About Xytex International:
Xytex International has been enhancing lives through cellular ingenuity since 1975. A worldwide leader in reproductive tissue storage and research, Xytex International is made up of Xytex Corporation, which provides donor semen; Xytex Tissue Storage, Inc. (XTS), which provides long-term safekeeping of reproductive cells and is the parent company of Xytex Cord Blood Bank; and Xytex Research, which works to improve reproductive tissue technologies. For more information, please visit http://www.xytexinternational.com/.

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For more information, please contact:
Danielle Wong Moores
Director of Marketing, Sales and Corporate Communications
Xytex International
706-733-0130
dmoores@xytex.com

Sheridan Rivers
Director of Sales
Xytex Corporation
706-733-0130
srivers@xytex.com

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