The expert guide to organ transplant

Ohio State health care teams have been providing organ transplants since 1967. Here, they help explain how organ transplantation works and what we’re doing at Ohio State to make this lifesaving procedure even safer and more accessible.

The joy of sharing it forward

General Health

Double lung transplant gives Ohio State student a new chance to live

March 27, 2026

Learn how expert care helped a young Buckeye.

Treatment Advances

Kidney transplant recipient thriving without antirejection drugs due to innovative treatment

By JoAnne Viviano

Collaborative Ohio State team combined procedures to allow kidney transplant recipient to avoid lifetime of antirejection medications.

General Health

Back on the trails after a lifesaving double lung transplant

By Beth Harvilla

Ann Sidesinger's journey to a lifesaving double-lung transplant at Ohio State highlights the power of organ donation and the profound gratitude she feels for a second chance.

General Health

One of the nation’s largest living kidney donation chains brings waves of hope

By Joshua Wright

It’s the largest surgery of its kind at Ohio State’s Comprehensive Transplant Center.

Health and Society

How Ohio State celebrates organ transplants as ‘Buckeyes for Life’

By Joshua Wright

Ohio State’s annual Buckeye Pinwheel Planting and Transplant Reunion touches hearts with a record-breaking celebration of the lifesaving gift of organ donation and transplantation.

General Health

Kidney donation chain saves five lives at once

By Joshua Wright

A complex procedure brought together 10 people to make crucial kidney transplants possible.

General Health

Former firefighter’s active life restored by heart transplant

By Joshua Wright

A complicated, painful battle with heart disease has a happy ending.

General Health

Getting the call: What happens when an organ becomes available for transplant

By Joshua Wright

Sarah’s call that her new lungs were ready for transplant came at a desperate time. Learn what it’s like for both patients and medical center staff when an organ becomes ready for transplant.

General Health

Liver transplant recipient gets second and third chance at life

By Hannah Griffith

Military veteran receives second and third chance at life with liver donation.

Facts about living donation

General Health

Coworker gives highway patroller an unexpected gift: a new kidney

By Hannah Griffith

Watch as care team members and highway patrol members honor the secretary who donated her kidney to the Ohio State Highway Patrol sergeant.

General Health

How to ask for living kidney donation

By Austin Schenk, MD, PhD

For those in need of a new kidney, living kidney donation is the best and fastest option. We break down how to approach finding a living donor.

General Health

Mother and son donate kidneys to ailing husband and father, 21 years apart

By Wendy Pramik

Ohio state kidney transplant patient Jonathan Schriber receives the gift of life twice as his wife and son act as living kidney donors for him, 21 years apart.

Treatment Advances

Everything you need to know about living kidney and living liver donation

By Kenneth Washburn, MD

Learn the facts about living organ donation and how this growing option is saving lives by making more organs available for those in need of liver or kidney transplant.

General Health

What is tissue typing for organ transplant?

April 24, 2024

Learn how this process is vital to ensuring successful organ transplants.

General Health

Do transplanted organs last a lifetime?

By Alejandro Diez, MD

The life of a transplanted organ varies by type, but there are ways you can help extend its longevity, too.

Innovation and Research: Expanding donor pools

Treatment Advances

With thousands awaiting organ transplants, Ohio State surgeon is expanding organ availability to save more lives

By Beth Harvilla

Ohio State’s transplant program is one of the busiest in the country. But the program’s leader, Kenneth Washburn, MD, isn’t done yet. He’s pushing for more innovation and living donation.

General Health

Making more organs available for lung transplants

By Wendy Margolin

A transplant surgeon at Ohio State turns to the research lab to find innovative ways to make more organs suitable for donation.

General Health

Transforming lives, one organ transplant at a time

By Alayna DeMartini

Dr. Ginny Bumgardner has saved lives by transplanting organs and training others to follow the same career path.

The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center

Organ transplantation at Ohio State saves lives

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