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MTN supports research and medical education by sending organs that are recovered for transplant and later deemed unsuitable to three different organizations: International Institute for the Advancement of Medicine (IIAM), National Diabetes Research Institute (NDRI) and the University of Kansas Medical Center (KUMC) Liver Research Department. 

The National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP) is the international leader in the facilitation of unrelated marrow and blood stem cell transplantation. They are a non-profit organization based in Minneapolis, Minn. that facilitates unrelated marrow and blood stem cell transplants for patients with life-threatening diseases who do not have matching donors in their families.

People in every part of the world are waiting for someone to donate so their lives can improve through bone marrow, blood stem cells or umbilical cord blood transplants. Locally, Midwest Transplant Network facilitates living donation of kidneys through an anonymous program. You may be a living donor by donating your kidney to someone on a waiting list in the MTN service area.

For more information, please view our Living Donor Brochure.

Why Donate?

There is a severe organ shortage in this country. Despite continuing efforts at public education, misconceptions and inaccuracies about donation persist. It’s a tragedy if even one person decides against donation because they don’t know the truth.

Almost 100,000 people are waiting for an organ transplant in the United States. Your decision to donate your organs can save the lives of up to eight people, and directly improve the lives of up to 50 people through tissue donation.