nPOD 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:

 

As one of the founding Organ Procurement Organizations of nPOD, Donor Alliance started its work at the Barbara Davis Center, located at the University of Colorado, before joining nPOD in 2005. This was prior to nPOD’s foundation date in 2007.  Therefore, Donor Alliance has been a willing partner with nPOD from the very beginning.

 

 

Gift of Life Donor Program has been with nPOD since nPOD started in 2007 and is therefore one of the founding partners of nPOD. Howard Nathan, president and CEO of the group, has provided nPOD with crucial advisory information on organ donation processes. Nathan has also provided nPOD with insight on retrieving broad-scale support and understanding family relations when dealing with organ donation and procurement.

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Golden State Donor Services (GSDS) screens antibodies sent from Organ Procurement Organizations by doing pre-diabetic screening and therefore brought forward other OPOs to nPOD. It has been a partner organization of nPOD since 2009. 

 

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. This strategy has been important to organ recovery because it saves recovery time. IIAM has been a partner with the nPOD project since October 2009.

 

Life Alliance Organ Recovery Agency (LAORA) is located at the University of Miami. As one of the founding partners of nPOD, it is unique because of its community of surgeons, scientists and screening labs that work together on-site at the University.

 

 

LifeLink Foundation includes three organ recovery organizations: LifeLink of Florida, serving west and southwest Florida; LifeLink of Georgia, serving the state of Georgia; and LifeLink of Puerto Rico, serving Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. This organization also houses the LifeLink Tissue Bank, which makes tens of thousands of tissue grafts available for transplant each year.

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Located at the University of Florida, LifeQuest Organ Recovery Services is one of the founding partners of nPOD.  As an Organ procurement Organization, LifeQuest is a critical partner when it comes to teaching nPOD about the stressful nature and process of OPOs. It is often a frontline OPO for families wishing to donate.

 

 

A founding partner of nPOD, Lifesharing Tissue Services is an Organ Procurement Organization that, through their executive director, Lisa Stocks, gave critical advice early on to nPOD on how to structure the project for other OPOs to join. Like Golden State in Sacramento, it is one of the first to administer screening for antibodies to other OPOs.

 

 

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. NDRI was an nPOD partner from 2007 to 2010. We would like to thank NDRI for its years of support.

 

OneLegacy is one of the largest Organ Procurement Organizations in the United States. It became a partner with nPOD in 2009. It has a direct partnership with the Mendez National Institute of Transplantation in Los Angeles, Calif. OneLegacy has helped nPOD tremendously by helping nPOD connect with other OPOs at events and aiding with multiple organ recoveries.