Fresenius grants $106,000 to United Network for Organ Sharing
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Through its non-profit foundation, Fresenius Medical Care Foundation aims to improve organ donation processes by providing a grant of $106,000 to the United Network for Organ Sharing.
“[United Network for Organ Sharing] UNOS’s staff works proactively with organ procurement and transplantation professionals and industry experts to develop and implement innovations toward continuously improving the transplant system,” Brian Shepard, CEO of UNOS, said in a press release from Fresenius. “Grants like this from the Fresenius Medical Care Foundation allow us to help professionals pinpoint needs and explore solutions in parts of the system where we haven’t previously played a role.”
In addition to projecting cold ischemic time before an organ is accepted, the grant will support efforts to predict organ travel time and better track donated organs once in route, according to the release.
More specifically, as described in the release, the grant will be used to develop an application that could help organ procurement organizations and transplant centers choose an optimal route for transportation. In addition, it will be used to develop a centralized data warehouse of transportation information.
The release noted that these actions are important because no single national transportation system currently exists for tracking organs; each organ procurement organization and transplant center must develop its own methods.
“We are excited to support UNOS’s efforts to streamline logistics and enable more individuals to receive an organ donation,” Bill Valle, CEO of Fresenius Medical Care North America and president of the foundation, said. “The best option to give life back to a patient with kidney failure is through transplant, and these important initiatives will hopefully create more opportunities to successfully do so.”
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