AlloSource Recognized as Top Innovator at 2008 "Champions in Healthcare" Awards.

CENTENNIAL, Colo. -- AlloSource, one of the nation's largest non-profit providers of skin, bone and soft tissue allografts for use in surgical procedures, announced today that its President and CEO, Thomas A. Cycyota, has been selected as the Healthcare Innovator of the Year in the "Champions in Health Care" awards program coordinated by the Denver Business Journal. This is the second year in a row that AlloSource was recognized by the program. In 2007 AlloSource was a finalist in the Innovator Category.

"Champions in Health Care" recognizes those who have made an impact on health care in the Denver community through their concern for patients, their research and inventions, their management skills, their innovative programs for employees and their service to the poor and uninsured. The innovator category specifically honors a person or organization for developing a breakthrough in medical technology or research.

"I am humbled to be chosen for this distinction as a representative of all the Associates at AlloSource, who are dedicated to serving our mission of honoring organ and tissue donor wishes and responsibly providing new possibilities for people in our communities," said Cycyota. "The other finalists in this category have made a significant impact on the lives of others, and I am privileged to be in their company. Innovation at AlloSource is a team effort, and we will remain committed to fully utilizing the gift of donation by providing tissue for myriad clinical applications that are available today and others that will be possible in the future."

AlloSource has experienced tremendous growth over the past five years, allowing the company to help more people in more communities than ever before. This noteworthy expansion is a testament to the Company's continued and vigorous innovation, which drives new and powerful possibilities in providing life-saving allograft tissue for people in need. During the last year alone, AlloSource innovation has made significant strides in five key categories:

* Osteobiologics

AlloSource is now the only U.S. tissue network to manufacture and offer a full range of bone growth substitutes. These products give surgeons the ability to foster new bone growth leading to fewer amputations and additional, painful surgeries.

* Machined Allografts

AlloSource is a leading supplier of allografts for surgeons that perform spinal fusion surgery in the U.S. These surgeries help improve mobility and reduce pain for thousands of people each year.

* Skin

AlloSource has grown into one of the world's largest providers of allograft skin for burn patients through a stated commitment to do what it takes to deliver this life-saving tissue. Today, it serves traumatic burn victims in burn centers nationwide. AlloSource is one of the few U.S. tissue networks providing fresh living allograft skin, preferred by many surgeons to treat their most critically burned patients.

* Joint Restoration

The Company's internationally recognized Joint Restoration Program provides orthopedic surgeons with high-demand sports medicine allografts used in joint repair. Through a dedicated effort, AlloSource has grown into the largest provider of fresh cartilage allograft tissue in the world.

* Donation

Each year AlloSource strategically distributes a significant portion of its revenue back to Organ Procurement Organizations (OPOs) to fund organ and tissue donation education programs and tissue utilization initiatives in their local communities. In 2007 it redistributed 40 percent of total revenue to OPOs. By giving back these revenues to the local OPOs, they are then able to find new and innovative ways to maximize tissue, register more people as donors, educate staff and their communities about tissue donation and the amazing possibilities it presents.

Champions in Health Care winners were announced at an awards ceremony and dinner September 25 at the Brown Palace Hotel. The 2008 Champions in Health Care finalists and winners were also profiled in a special section in the September 26 issue of the Denver Business Journal.

About AlloSource

AlloSource delivers powerful possibilities to the medical community, patients and donor families. AlloSource is a non-profit company that offers more than 200 precise bone, skin, soft-tissue and custom-machined allografts for use in a host of life-saving and life-enhancing medical procedures. As the world's leader in fresh cartilage tissue used for joint repair and skin allografts to heal severe burns, AlloSource has become one of the largest and most respected tissue networks in the country. AlloSource delivers unparalleled expertise and responsive customer service to its growing network of surgeons, partners and the country's most reputable organ procurement organizations. AlloSource is accredited by the American Association of Tissue Banks (AATB) and operates three facilities, in Centennial, CO; Salt Lake City, UT; and Cincinnati, OH. For more information, visit www.allosource.org.