The work was supported by the
National Institutes of Health, the Burroughs Wellcome Foundation, the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the International Society for Heart & Lung
Transplantation and a European Society for
Organ Transplantation - Astellas Study and Research Grant.
Donor
organs are matched to waiting recipients by a
national computer registry called the National Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network
national computer registry called the
National Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network
National Organ Procurement and
Transplantation Network (OPTN).