Epitope Elects Robert J. Zollars to Board of Directors

Epitope, Inc. announced that Robert J. Zollars, executive vice president and group president of Cardinal Health, Inc., Dublin, Ohio, has been appointed to Epitope's board of directors.

Zollars joins the Epitope board having nearly twenty years of health care industry experience with major organizations such as Cardinal Health, Baxter International and American Hospital Supply Corporation.

Zollars was appointed to the board of directors to fill a vacancy left by the previously announced retirement of R. Douglas Norby on February 17, 1998. Mr. Zollars' initial term will run until the 1999 annual meeting of shareholders, at which time he will stand for election for a full three-year term.

Epitope, Inc., is an Oregon-based corporation that develops and markets medical diagnostic products.