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The University of Minnesota is one of two institutions in the United States to host a new center established by the Biostasis Research Institute (BRI) aimed at creating human organ banks through the cryogenic storage of organs donated for transplantation.
BRI is launching and funding the Organ and Tissue Preservation Center at the U of M, which will focus on technologies to safely and rapidly rewarm cryopreserved organs and other living systems. This center will be housed within the U of M Institute for Engineering in Medicine (IEM) and will be led by IEM Director John Bischof and Medical School Department of Surgery faculty member Erik Finger.
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Biostasis Research Institute Launches to Enable Human “Organ Banks” Through the Cryogenic Storage of Donor Organs for Transplantation
April 21, 2021 GMT
BERKELEY, Calif., April 21, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The Biostasis Research Institute (BRI) launches today by establishing and funding two new research centers at Massachusetts General Hospital and the University of Minnesota aimed at creating human organ banks through the cryogenic storage of organs donated for transplantation.
These research centers will develop new technologies to store tissues, organs, and whole organisms for biomedical research as part of a larger “Apollo Program” in cryopreservation (extreme cold storage) and suspended animation (safely slowing and stopping biological processes). This research effort has now reached well over $100 million in funding from U.S. science agencies, philanthropic donors, and industry pa