About the MED-KIT Study

Maximise the potential of organ donation

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Support Donor Wishes

Organ donation is a selfless sacrifice on the part of the donor. Their last wish is to perform a benevolent act to help somebody in need.

Unfortunately, many donated organs do not meet the necessary criteria and cannot be used for transplantation. These organs however, offer an amazing opportunity for research and drug development, whilst honoring the wishes of the organ donor to bring about some benefit to society when they pass away.

Improve Drug Development

Currently drug development is dependent on animal models which do not accurately replicate the disease conditions found in people. A sick person and a healthy animal are very different things. This partly explains the difficulty in drug development and why so many drugs fail when transitioning from animal to human studies.

Donor organs rejected from transplantation as well as explanted recipient organs offer a massively useful opportunity to change the way we develop medicines and accelerate drug development.

Through the MED-KIT Study, we hope to pave the way for increased use of these hearts for utilisation in research. In this way we can improve drug discovery, increase the rate of drug development, saving countless lives in the future, as well as providing an additional benefit to organ donation.

About the MED-KIT Study

Support Donor Wishes

Improve Drug Development

Through the MED-KIT Study, we hope to pave the way for increased use of these hearts for utilisation in research. In this way we can improve drug discovery, increase the rate of drug development, saving countless lives in the future, as well as providing an additional benefit to organ donation.

Save Lives