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The United Network for Organ Sharing
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UNOS, located in Richmond,
Virginia, is a private, not-for-profit, membership corporation qualified
as a charitable organization. UNOS administers the national Organ
Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) and the U.S. Registry on
Organ Transplantation under contracts with the U.S. Department of Health
and Human Services.The U.S. Scientific Registry is the most complete medical database in the world, tracking all solid organ
transplants since October 1987. |
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South-Eastern Organ Procurement
Foundation
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Dr. David Hume in cooperation with Dr. Bernard Amos
determine that tissue typing would provide increased graft survival for kidney recipients if good matches could be obtained. SEOPF was awarded a contract to develop an organ procurement and sharing network between nine medical centers in a four-state area from Baltimore, MD to Atlanta, GA. |
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The American Society for
Histocompatibility & Immunogenetics
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The American Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics is dedicated to optimizing patient outcome through research, education and the advancement of immunogenetic
testing.
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National Marrow Donor Program
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The NMDP helps patients find donors through its worldwide alliance. Found in this section is information about the NMDP's international agreements and how those have helped to facilitate internationally exchanged marrow from volunteer donors to patients. |
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National Library of Medicine
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PubMed is the National Library of Medicine's search service that provides access to over 10 million citations in MEDLINE,
PreMEDLINE, and other related databases, with links to participating online journals. |
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After a century of extraordinary progress in medicine and health, the quest for new knowledge leading to better health care remains the defining mission of Johns Hopkins Medicine.Hopkins Medicine brings together the faculty physicians and
scientists of The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine with the organizations and health professionals of The Johns Hopkins Hospital and Health System to offer a full spectrum of activities in research, teaching and patient care. |
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American Association of Immunologists
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AAI holds an annual meeting, and periodically hosts the International Congress of Immunology. Each year, the annual
meeting draws thousands of attendees, and hundreds of exhibitors.
The Journal of Immunology (JI) is owned and published by the AAI. |
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The Transplant Resource Center of Maryland
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The Transplant Resource Center of Maryland, Inc.
(TRC) is a not-for-profit health service
organization that provides organ procurement and tissue bank services to the citizens of
Maryland. TRC was incorporated in 1991, consolidating the former Maryland Organ Procurement Center (est. 1982) and the Maryland Tissue Bank (1983). |
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The Johns Hopkins Comprehensive
Transplant Center
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One of the Mid-Atlantic's highest-rated transplant centers, Johns Hopkins offers a full compendium
of services including heart transplantation, lung transplantation, liver transplantation, kidney transplantation and pancreas transplantation. |
