Creating Families

Through the accumulation of scientific knowledge and many years of experience in the field of Reproductive Biology, Cryogonia was founded in 2012. An autonomous, specialized unit for freezing, cryopreservation and advanced applications in the laboratory management of male infertility.

Its mission is to contribute to the creation of families, through the provision of high level services, based on the integration of modern scientific knowledge in daily laboratory practice. Our vision is to make an active contribution to improving the conditions that will allow more and more people to experience the joy of having a child. Cryogonia came to help them make their dream come true.

We believe in scientific progress and move forward with steady steps toward the future. It will be a great honour and joy for all the people of Cryogonia to share this journey with you.

Our vision

… is creation and evolution: in close alignment with social and scientific developments, our aim is:

  • To contribute to the creation of new families providing a solution to the problem of infertility

  • To share the joy of childbearing with more and more people, without discriminations

  • To provide a high level of scientific services with assurance and reliability

  • To promote our scientific work through a primarily human-centered approach, characterized by responsibility and social sensitivity

Preventive Fertility Preservation

Cryogonia provides sperm freezing and cryopreservation services for homologous use to men who decide to preserve their genetic material for future use. You may be one of them, if:

  • You will be exposed to toxic environmental factors or will be submitted to surgical or other kind of therapy (chemotherapy, radiotherapy) that may damage your fertility.

  • You intend to participate in an assisted reproductive method (intrauterine insemination – in vitro fertilization) and cannot produce a semen sample at a specific time or will probably be absent at the programmed time of the procedure.

  • You have have already completed successfully a therapeutic cycle for sperm quality enhancement, the results of which are possibly non maintainable.

  • You will be submitted to surgical sperm collection from the testis or epididymis – provided the procedure recovers adequate sperm quantity.

  • You have been diagnosed with low semen quality and wish to store an adequate reserve of genetic material from multiple collections.

  • You are systematically exposed to spermotoxic factors due to your work or home environment e.g. chemicals, radiation, high temperature.

  • You wish to create a family later in life and would like to protect your fertility potential against any possible negative condition that may occur, as a preventive action.

Sperm Donation

CRYOGONIA is the leading Greek Cryopreservation Bank, operating in the field of freezing, cryopreservation and provision of donor sperm, incorporating the most complete screening of donors and samples in Greece.

Sperm donation can constitute the way to parenthood for women without a partner or for couples experiencing major male infertility, predisposition to hereditary diseases or repeated failure in assisted reproduction attempts.

In order to offer the best possible services in the field of sperm donation, CRYOGONIA also collaborates with international cryopreservation banks, expanding the choices for samples from international sperm donors, always in accordance with the current legislation and the instructions of the Greek National Authority of Assisted Reproduction.

Scientist using a microscope in a lab

Milestones for Cryogonia

2012

Cryogonia is founded as the first Greek Cryopreservation Bank of international standards

2013

Certification EN ISO 9001: 2008 – certification of quality assurance system application for good laboratory practice

2016

Certification EN 15224: 2012 – certification based on an advanced quality standards for all procedures applied at the Cryopreservation Bank

Approval of operating license by the National Authority of Assisted Reproduction (1st licensed independent Cryopreservation Bank in Greece)

Obtaining of the license to distribute genetic material within the EU

2017

Entry in the register of EU Tissue and Cell Institutions

Relocation to new offices with modern technological equipment

2021

Certification EN ISO 9001: 2015 – certification for application of best practices of laboratory operation and conducting scientific work

Certification EN 15224: 2017 – update of quality certification for optimal operation and security in the Cryobank’s processes

Contribution to the WHO 2021 reference limits with data from our scientific study in the Greek population

2024

Relocation to new headquarters with modern technological equipment

Λίνα Ευγενή

In CRYOGONIA, people are our priority.

Lina Evgeni