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The Gift of Life
Each spring, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center’s outdoor plaza transforms into a garden of scarlet and gray pinwheels. This marks the celebration of renewed life through organ transplant, further illustrating our dedication to shortening the national list of 103,000+ people who need lifesaving transplants.
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From Donor to Recipient
Ohio State’s Comprehensive Transplant Center is making the most of a limited and precious human resource: donor organs. The COPPER Laboratory’s specialists ensure organs’ viability for transplant using ex-vivo organ perfusion, a game-changing technology that respirates and nourishes organs outside the body.![Researchers at the Bumgardner Lab](/-/media/images/wexnermedical/pages/ways-to-give/ags-impact/transplant/bumgardner_849x670_.jpg?la=en&hash=500FA63EA7C52B3B4052ECB23581ECC1)
Improving Outcomes Through Research
To help recipients thrive post-surgery, researchers at the Bumgardner Laboratory study the causes of cell and organ transplant rejection. Their discoveries, such as a novel cell therapy to avoid kidney transplant failure, can predict and prevent complications.How you can help
Donate Online
Donate by Mail
The Wexner Medical Center Development Officec/o The OSU Foundation
PO Box 710811
Columbus, OH 43271-0811