On Apr. 1, 2025, layoff notices began arriving for thousands of employees of the sprawling U.S. Department of…
On Mar. 11, 2025, researchers at St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney announced the first implant of a BiVACOR Total…
On Mar. 3, 2025, epidemiologists at the Texas A&M University School of Public Health have identified a link…
On Feb. 3, 2025, United Therapeutics, a public benefit corporation, announced that the U.S.Food and Drug Administration (FDA)…
On Jan. 29, 2025, researchers from the University Medical Center Göttingen announced they have shown that patches of…
On Dec. 18, 2024, BiVACOR, a clinical-stage medical device company, announced the successful completion of the first phase…
On Dec. 17, 2024, United Therapeutics, a public benefit corporation, announced the world’s first transplant of a UKidney,…
On Dec. 2, 2024, the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus announced it will receive up to $46…
On Jul. 25, 2024, doctors from the Texas Heart Institute (THI), BiVACOR®, Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center and…
On Mar. 21, 2024, Harvard Medical School physician-scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital announced they had successfully transplanted a…
On Apr. 2, 2020, an international team led by University of British Columbia (UBC) researcher Dr. Josef Penninger…
On Jul. 24, 2019, the Oregon Health Science University (OHSU) Transplant Program – one of the oldest, largest…
On Sept. 11, 2016, the University of Washington Medicine (UW) announced that a medical team became the first…
On Nov. 8, 2013, the Human Tissue and Organ Donation Amendment Act (Bill 207) was passed. The Act…
On Nov. 2, 2009, an international consortium lead by Larry Schook at the University of Illinois in Champaign…
On Aug. 20, 2007, researchers from Stanford University announced they had identified a pattern of gene expression shared…
On Mar. 8, 2006, World Kidney Day, a joint initiative between the International Society of Nephrology (ISN) and…
In 2000, the Center for Clinical Sciences Research building opened, and is an example of a fully integrated…
On Feb. 14, 1998, National Donor Day was started by the Saturn Corporation and its United Auto Workers…
In 1998, Beth Israel Deaconess surgeon Dr. Roger Jenkins performed the first successful live donor liver transplantation (LADLT)…
On May 3, 1995, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) announced it had approved Genentech’s drug CellCept…
In 1995, Brigham and Women’s surgeons performed the first triple-organ transplant in the U.S., removing three organs from…
On Dec. 8, 1994, the Lion’s Eye Bank of Washington, Northern Idaho and Alaska announced that they had…
On Oct. 26, 1994, a 12-year-old boy from Everett underwent the first heart transplant at Children’s Hospital and…
On Nov. 11, 1990, Stormie Jones, the world’s first recipient of a successful simultaneous heart and liver organ…
On Nov. 27, 1989, a surgical team at the University of Chicago Medical Center performed a live donor…
In 1986, BC Transplant (BCT) was established. BCT directs, delivers or contracts for all organ transplant services across…
On Feb 14, 1984, the world’s first successful combined heart-liver transplant was performed in Pittsburgh at UPMC Children’s…
On Apr. 23, 1981, doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital announced they had for the first time successfully tested…
On Mar. 9, 1981, cardiothoracic surgeon Dr. Bruce Reitz from Stanford Medicine performed the first successful human combined…