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 May 26, 2023, the University of Gothenburg announced that for the first time worldwide, in yet another…
On Jan. 26, 2022, scientists at Tufts and Harvard University’s Wyss Institute reported they were able to trigger…
On Aug. 10, 2021, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that a pilot study had begun to…
On Dec. 15, 2020, Aurinia Pharmaceuticals announced the funding and initiation of an open-label exploratory trial evaluating the…
On Sept. 2, 2020, UT Southwestern (UTSW) announced that it had performed the first HIV-positive-to-HIV-positive organ transplant in…
On Jul. 23, 2020, kidney transplantation from deceased donors with HIV to people living with both HIV and…
On Apr. 10, 2020, Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) announced that a 68-year-old Oregonian was recovering at…
On Apr. 2, 2020, an international team led by University of British Columbia (UBC) researcher Dr. Josef Penninger…
On Feb. 17, 2020, the University of Gothenburg announced that the team responsible for uterine transplantation research has,…
On Jan. 9, 2020, Penn Medicine announced the birth of Benjamin Thomas Gobrecht: his mother, 33-year-old Jennifer Gobrecht,…
On Jul. 24, 2019, the Oregon Health Science University (OHSU) Transplant Program – one of the oldest, largest…
On Jun. 7, 2017, the W. M. Keck Foundation gave $10 million to support a University of Southern…
On Sept. 11, 2016, the University of Washington Medicine (UW) announced that a medical team became the first…
On Oct. 3, 2014, the University of Gothenburg announced that seven Swedish women in a ground-breaking research project…
On Nov. 8, 2013, the Human Tissue and Organ Donation Amendment Act (Bill 207) was passed. The Act…
On Mar. 21, 2012, the University of Washington Medical Center became the first in Pacific Northwest to discharge…
On Dec. 16, 2011, the $1.28 million dollar Alberta Transplant Innovation Fund (ATIF) was established to fund research…
On May 3, 2010, Charles Okeke became the first U.S. patient to be discharged from the hospital without…
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 Aug. 16. 2007, surgeons at the University of Washington (UW) Medical Center performed Seattle’s first adult heart-lung…
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…