The ultimate gift: Organ transplantation

Timestamps:

00:00 Intro

01:05 How did you first get interested in supporting organ transplantation? 

04:53 What are the organs that we can transplant?

06:00 When we are at the Department of Motor Vehicles, we can register as a donor and make our wishes known to our family, is that right?

07:03 If people are interesting in donating a kidney, for example, do they reach out to their local hospital and let them know they are interested in being a donor?

08:50 How does your work in the Histocompatability laboratory, how does it support transplantation? 

10:57 Can you give our audience kind of a flavor of how does this work to do this kind of dance to match donor and recipient and have a successful transplant? 

13:11 What’s on the horizon for HLA and histocompatibility in the next couple of years?

18:30 The ability for us to identify a patient, these patients who could not get a transplant are now able to get the transplant because of these improvements in the laboratory.

20:01 Outro

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Successful pig to human transplant articles: