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Last year in the UK alone, it is estimated that over 7,700 men, women and children were waiting for a life-saving organ transplant, and 420 died waiting.
There is a very narrow window in which to identify, preserve and transplant an organ that has become available. Indeed, so tight is the window that despite the demand, many organs simply fall and cannot be transplanted in time.
This project explores how automated technologies, together with artificial intelligence, could preserve organs for longer periods of time by replicating and feeding the organ everything that it would require to keep functioning, essentially ‘banking’ it.
Alongside keeping the organ ‘alive’, the technology can also identify the most critically vulnerable patients and use gene therapy to make any organ biologically compatible for them. Currently, patients must wait for a naturally biologically compatible organ to become available.
We hope that by using AI in this way, we will avoid the current ad-hoc system of transplantation and instead create a fairer and more ethical process that avoids bias.
Experts and Collaborators
Dr. Farhan Zafar, Organ Procurement Surgeon, Transmedics, USA and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center.