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Immucor Announces New Vice President, Operations

Tuesday, January 20, 2009 General News
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NORCROSS, Ga., Jan. 19 Immucor, Inc.(Nasdaq: BLUD), a global leader in providing automated instrument-reagentsystems to the blood transfusion industry, announced today that Michael Predhas joined the Company as Vice President, Operations, responsible foroverseeing all U.S. manufacturing operations.
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Mr. Pred has more than 15 years pharmaceutical manufacturing experiencewith both Pfizer and Merck & Co. Most recently, he led all manufacturing in amulti-plant operation for vaccine production for Pfizer Animal Health. Priorto joining Pfizer, Mr. Pred held various manufacturing leadership roles atMerck. He spent seven years in the U.S. Navy, as a nuclear-trained submarineofficer. Mr. Pred holds a B.S. in chemical engineering from the University ofWisconsin.
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"With his strong working knowledge of manufacturing best practices and hisproven commitment to excellence, Mike will help Immucor maintain our strongcommitment to product quality and quality compliance while enhancingmanufacturing efficiency," stated Dr. Gioacchino De Chirico.

About Immucor

Founded in 1982, Immucor manufactures and sells a complete line ofreagents and systems used by hospitals, reference laboratories and donorcenters to detect and identify certain properties of the cell and serumcomponents of blood prior to transfusion. Immucor markets a complete family ofautomated instrumentation for all of its market segments. For more informationon Immucor, please visit our website at www.immucor.com .

SOURCE Immucor, Inc.
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