RTI engineers and academic colleagues have been actively engaged for over a decade in development of organ preservation systems and sensors to monitor the quality/viability of organs destined for transplantation. RTI founder Robertson was a key member of a team that perfected a novel cardio emulation organ perfusion system for...
Regeneration/tissue engineering
Another approach to solving the transplantable organ shortage crisis is ‘bioengineering’ of organs – by ‘stripping down’ potentially useful organs and then repopulating them with stem cells. Conceptually (not yet a reality) these newly regenerated kidneys could be ‘manufactured’ with precise matching to recipients and then transplanted. Members of the...
Ex vivo organ engineering
Members of the RTI team also have applied their knowledge of organ preservation/perfusion systems, sensing systems, and Rametrix® organ viability profiling to help develop novel ex vivo methods to improve organ quality and even to ‘treat’ abnormalities (anatomical defects, benign tumors) in isolated, perfused organs, as demonstrated in several peer-reviewed...
Transplantation
Unfortunately, the only way to tell if a kidney transplant is going to work…is to transplant it and wait. Most transplanted kidneys start to work immediately and help sustain transplant patients for 10-20 years. Transplants from deceased donors typically can function adequately for up to a decade (average 8-12 years)...