Could you be UKODTRN’s new Co-ordinator to drive forward the Network’s work over the next 12 months. This is a unique role providing day-to-day operational support for the Network undertaking a range of varied tasks.  In this key role you will have a fantastic opportunity to develop your coordination, communication and collaboration skills as you […]

UK Organ Donation and Transplantation Research Network join public involvement pledge A voluntary Network committed to delivering collaborative research in organ donation and transplantation have joined the Health Research Authority (HRA) and a host of other leading organisations in a pledge to improve public involvement in research. The UK Organ Donation and Transplantation Research Network (UKODTRN) have signed up […]

The Medical Research Council (MRC) has published its new strategy for how people and the research community can come together to shape and share research. “By public partnerships we mean all the ways that people and the research community can come together to shape and share scientific research. Public partners include members of the public, […]

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We welcome Aly Flowers as the new UKODTRN Project Manager. Aly takes over the role vacated by Robyn Challis and is responsible for the day-to-day management, co-ordination and delivery of our activities. Aly also provides support to Co-Director Karen Rockell in her work and will do for the fellow Co-Director when that role is filled. […]

As the NHS Blood and Transplant Organ Donation Week ends, UKODTRN highlights one more incredible research study. The MELODY, Mass Evaluation of Lateral flow immunOassays for the Detection of SARS-CoV-2 antibodY responses in immunosuppressed people, study used home antibody testing to improve the understanding of responses to COVID-19 vaccinations in individuals receiving immunosuppression. See more […]

As we near the end of NHS Blood and Transplant Organ Donation Week, we highlight the vital part QUOD, Quality In Organ Donation, plays in transplantation research. The QUOD programme facilitates research into organ donation and transplantation by providing researchers with samples (e.g: blood, urine and tissue) and clinical data from appropriately consented/authorised organ donors. […]

This study examines defatting donor transplant livers during the process of normothermic perfusion, which preserves the organ before transplantation, and is being led by Dr Hussain Abbas, Clinical Research Fellow at Oxford University. This study’s long term goal is to create more suitable livers for transplantation. Liver disease is the third leading cause of premature […]

As UKODTRN continues to highlight NHS Blood and Transplant Organ Donation Week, we look at the E-CLAD UK clinical trial. This aims to find out if a therapy called Extracorporeal Photopheresis (ECP) can be used to successfully treat chronic lung allograft dysfunction (CLAD) – also called chronic rejection. The clinical trial, funded by the National […]