OrganOx

The technology, normothermic machine perfusion, (NMP) has been developed by OrganOx, a company spun out of the University of Oxford, UK. It is a totally new approach to preserving a deceased donor liver prior to transplantation. Instead of storing the donor liver in ice, NMP provides the organ with oxygenated blood and nutrients at normal body temperature which allows it to function in the critical period between the donation and transplantation and enables an assessment of the organ prior to transplant.