Organ Recovery Partners
Our organ recovery partners help us by identifying donors that meet nPOD’s donor criteria, recovering and delivering designated organs and tissues from those donors and obtaining consent for research from donor families.
Each donation to research has the potential to save thousands of lives. Our organ procurement organization (OPO) partners provide the gifts to inform several important research projects. Every new nPOD scientific publication will feature a special thank you to all our OPO partners, to underscore the importance of OPO gifts to type 1 diabetes research. For a list of current publications, click here.
Our current organ recovery partners include:
Donor Network West is a federally designated nonprofit, 501(c)3, organ procurement and tissue recovery organization (OPO). Established in 1987, they serve more than 13 million people and connect a donor’s gift to those in need in 45 counties in Northern California and Northern Nevada.
OneLegacy is one of the largest Organ Procurement Organizations in the United States. It has a direct partnership with the Mendez National Institute of Transplantation in Los Angeles, Calif.
Lifesharing is an Organ Procurement Organization that, through their executive director gave critical advice on how to structure the project for other OPOs to join.
LifeQuest Organ Recovery Services is an Organ Procurement Organization located at the University of Florida. LifeQuest is a critical partner when it comes to teaching about the stressful nature and process of OPOs.
LifeLink of Florida is a division of LifeLink Foundation. As a non-profit organ procurement organization (OPO) designated to 15 counties in west and southwest Florida, LifeLink of Florida helps to facilitate the recovery of organs for transplantation within all hospitals in its donation service area, along with providing public education about the facts of donation and how individuals can save lives by joining the organ, tissue and eye donor registry.
LifeLink of Georgia, a division of LifeLink Foundation, is the non-profit OPO designated to the state of Georgia and two counties in South Carolina. LifeLink of Georgia helps to facilitate the recovery of organs for transplantation within all hospitals in its donation service area.
The International Institute for the Advancement of Medicine (IIAM) is one of the largest recovery and placement networks in the world for donated human organs and tissues. As a partner, it has relationships with Organ Procurement Organizations all across the country. OPOs are able to place one call with IIAM and they can place non-transplantable organs for research in many fields.
Midwest Transplant Network (MTN) has been connecting lives in Kansas and western Missouri since 1973. As a federally certified, not-for-profit organ procurement organization (OPO), they work with organ, eye, and tissue donors, their families, hospitals, and other professional partners to extend legacies, provide hope and give life.
The National Disease Research Interchange (NDRI) is one of the largest recovery agencies and aims to provide customized biomaterials for use in studies to understand human disease.
New England Organ Bank is the federally designated, non-profit organ procurement organization that coordinates organ and tissue donation in all or part of the six New England states and Bermuda.
Novabiosis, Inc. works directly with regulated US Organ Procurement Organizations (OPOs) to facilitate the placement of whole non-transplantable organs and tissues for research.
The Center for Organ Recovery & Education (CORE) is one of 58 federally designated not-for-profit organ procurement organizations (OPOs) in the United States. The CORE service area includes many counties of Western Pennsylvania and West Virginia, as well as Chemung County, New York.
LifeLink of Puerto Rico, a division of LifeLink Foundation, is the non-profit OPO designated to Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. LifeLink of Puerto Rico helps to facilitate the recovery of organs for transplantation within all hospitals in its donation service area, along with providing public education about the facts of donation and how individuals can save lives by joining the organ, tissue and eye donor registry.
We Are Sharing Hope SC is an independent nonprofit corporation dedicated to advancing organ, eye and tissue donation in South Carolina for transplantation and research. They provide professional and public education regarding such donations and educational and emotional support to families of potential donors.