The standard for organ transplant is a plastic picnic cooler filled with ice. Boston-based TransMedics is one-upping this idea with a warm blood perfusion device - essentially keeping organs alive as they await transplant surgery.
Nearly 400,000 Americans die each year from lung disease. The just-formed University of Maryland spinout Breethe Inc. is building a wearable, portable blood pump oxygenator that’ll work as an artificial lung. It’s designed for patients with respiratory failure and cardiopulmonary collapse. Though Breethe’s in the earliest of stages, it’s meant to be the first portable lung […]
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MedCity News has partnered with BioCrossroads to provide coverage focused on Indiana’s next generation of growth and innovation in life sciences. Indianapolis startup ImmuneWorks is developing drugs to treat lung transplant patients, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and other fibrotic lung diseases. The 8-year-old company was founded by two researchers at the Indiana University School of Medicine […]
A year after Sarah Murnaghan’s parents successfully campaigned for her to receive an adult lung transplant, the group that manages organ transplant policy has permanently changed a rule to allow some children to be considered for adult lung transplants. The parents of Murnaghan, who has cystic fibrosis and diabetes from CF, successfully sued for their […]