Research Coordination


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FIRST GLOBAL ORGAN BANKING SUMMIT

February 2015

Dozens of leading researchers met at Stanford School of Medicine to outline the remaining “sub-challenges” in organ cryopreservation. The overwhelming consensus was that cryopreservation of complex tissues has become an achievable goal with today’s technologies.

 
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NSF-SPONSORED TECHNOLOGY ROADMAP

2014 - 2015

The National Science Foundation funded the creation of a technology roadmap to off-the-shelf human organs, which outlined the key research opportunities and milestones to achieving organ banking in the coming years.

The roadmap’s completion was accompanied by a workshop bringing together leadership at NIH, NASA, and many other government agencies as large stakeholder organizations and leading experts in organ preservation and regenerative medicine.

 
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DARPA “ORGANS ON DEMAND” WORKSHOP AT WEST POINT

August 2015

The Organ Preservation Alliance (OPA) held a workshop at the U.S. Military Academy along with top leadership at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), outlining key concepts in a proposed “Apollo Program” to preserve and bank organs, limbs, and other complex tissues.