Professor Scheib’s research focuses on understanding the experiences of families created through donor conception, and the donors who assist them. In collaboration with The Sperm Bank of California (TSBC) in Berkeley, she examines the experiences of (i) intended parents ("recipients") using a donor program to have children, (ii) donor-conceived people across different family types, (iii) donors after they leave the program, and (iv) the outcome of releasing donor identities to donor-conceived adults. Findings from this work help guide policy development in open-identity gamete donation, and the support needed for all participants.
TSBC is the oldest organization in the world to offer open-identity donation, meaning that people conceived with the help of this program are among the first adults to access their donor's identity in planned releases.