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How New Advances in Organ Transplants Are Saving Lives

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Advances are increasing the supply of organs. But this isn’t enough. Enter the genetically modified donor pig

By Tanya Lewis

Robert Montgomery walked deliberately down the hospital hallway carrying a stainless-steel bowl containing a living human kidney resting on a bed of ice. Minutes earlier the organ had been in one man’s body. It was about to be implanted into another man to keep him alive.

It was about 11 A.M. on a Monday this past spring. I followed Montgomery, an abdominal transplant surgeon and director of the NYU Langone Transplant Institute, into an operating room where 49-year-old John Primavera was waiting to receive the precious kidney.
Read the full article in Scientific American.

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Outgoing transplant society president says organ supply, outcomes remain challenges

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By Mark E. Neumann

Despite advances in the last 7 decades, some challenges remain for transplantation, including a limited organ supply and improving long-term outcomes, the outgoing president of the American Society of Transplantation said in a presentation.

“Two decades ago, I attended my first [American Transplant Congress] ATC meeting and fell in love with transplantation,” Deepali Kumar, MD, MSc, FRCP(C), a professor of medicine at the University of Toronto and director of transplant infectious diseases at the University Health Network, told attendees at the ATC in San Diego. Read more in Healio.

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Transplant society president calls for more collaborative efforts to increase organ supply

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The transplant community, HHS and procurement organizations need to work collaboratively to increase the organ supply for transplantation in the United States, according to remarks made at the American Transplant Congress.

“We need more than symbolic gestures from our elected officials if we are going to meet the crisis of end-stage organ failure that kills patients at a rate of 17 per day [on the waitlist] in the U.S.,” John Gill, MD, outgoing president of the American Society of Transplantation (AST), said during his address. Read more in Healio here.

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