Today, the National Kidney Registry announced the successful completion of Chain 221, the second-largest kidney swap in history and the largest swap to be concluded in under 40 days. Chain 221 involved 56 participants, 19 transplant centers and completed approximately one year after NKR’s largest swap which included 60 participants and was featured on the …
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National Kidney Registry Facilitates 500th Transplant, Solidifies Position as the Most Productive Kidney Exchange Program in the World
The National Kidney Registry announced the successful completion of its 500th paired exchange transplant. The surgery was completed yesterday, just before midnight, at UCLA’s Ronald Regan Medical Center. The NKR initiated its first exchange transplants just over four years ago, in February of 2008, at the Weill/Cornell Medical Center. Commenting on the past four years, …
NKR Exceeds 50,000 Twitter Followers: More Patients Learning About Kidney Swaps Through Social Media
Today, the National Kidney Registry announced that its Twitter following broke through the 50,000 level. With over 80,000 patients waiting for a kidney transplant, an ever increasing number are educating themselves about kidney transplant “swaps” via the National Kidney Registry’s tweets. “The magnitude of our following on Twitter is allowing us to educate many more …
NKR Renames Prestigious Award – Terasaki Medical Innovation
We are pleased to announce that the National Kidney Registry is renaming the prestigious “Medical Innovation Award” to the “Terasaki Medical Innovation Award” in honor of Dr. Paul Terasaki, a pioneer in transplant medicine, who in 1964 developed the test that became the international standard for tissue typing. Dr. Terasaki’s many significant scientific breakthroughs have …
NKR Wins Social Entrepreneurship Award
The founder of a national kidney donor registry has been presented with this year’s Social Entrepreneurship Award for his innovative work and service. Garet Hil’s personal mission to find a kidney donor for his 10-year-old daughter (he and his wife were incompatible) led him to create a national registry of potential donors and recipients to …
Aetna Announces NKR Grant Award
Aetna (NYSE: AET) and the Aetna Foundation have announced an initial grant of $50,000 to support the work of the National Kidney Registry (NKR), a nonprofit group dedicated to improving the lives of people facing kidney failure by helping patients with incompatible donors receive kidney transplants through the NKR’s national matching system. Representatives from Aetna …
First Valentine’s Day Donor Chain
On Valentine’s Day, one of the nation’s first three-way living-donor kidney transplant chains was initiated by New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center and its medical partner The Rogosin Institute. The innovative approach—a NEAD (never-ending altruistic donor) chain—may dramatically improve the opportunity for patients in need of kidney transplants to find a compatible donor and potentially …