From Hours to Months: Building the Future of Organ Banking
Every donated organ represents the opportunity to save a life—but today’s preservation limits mean many cannot reach a compatible recipient in time. Through a collaboration between NSF ATP-Bio and NSF EARTH, researchers are developing innovative cryopreservation and refrigerant technologies that could one day make long-term organ banking possible.
Explore the collaboration and read the full EARTH article HERE
Collaborative research team from two NSF engineering research centers.
Pictured from L > R: Mark Shiflett and Dorothy Haggard of NSF ERC EARTH; Lakshya Gangwar and John Bischof of NSF ERC ATP-Bio.
NSF Advanced Technologies for the Preservation of Biological Systems (ATP-Bio)
National Science Foundation under Grant No. EEC 1941543
NSF Environmentally Applied Refrigerant Technology Hub (EARTH)
National Science Foundation under Grant No: ECC 2330175