Many organs that are ready for donation are discarded for various reasons. The Organ Procurement and Transplant Network is finding ways to combat this to increase the number of transplants done per year.

Dinero's pediatric nephrology team developed a tailored formula to address his mineral deficiencies due to his chronic kidney disease, maintain nutritional health and avoid dialysis.

Without hesitation, a father and mother both individually donate a kidney to each of their two children who were in desperate need.

Jason Gentry needed a kidney. Lisa Clouse wanted to give him hers. When the two weren’t a match, a paired kidney exchange across 6 states ensured Gentry — and 5 others — got the organs they needed.

A novel therapeutic may halt rapid kidney function in some type 1 diabetic kidney disease patients.

Kidney transplant connects police officers through the gift of life.

Two new, free apps help to navigate the complex transplant journey for kidney and liver transplant patients.

The gifts of life that healed a severely sick man inspired him to set a big goal to benefit others: Get 500,000 people to register as organ donors.   

U-M worked with a hospital in Addis Ababa to bring hemodialysis treatments & kidney transplants to Ethiopia. Learn more about Ethiopia’s first kidney transplant.

New medical research from the University of Michigan shows about one-third of patients with transplants received their new kidney before starting dialysis.