Colleagues from the BTRU in ODT will be at the Riverside Community Health Project Family Festival on Wednesday 16th August from 11 am to 2 pm at Hodgkin Park, Whitehouse Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE4 8QP. There’ll be live music, animals, activity stalls, health information stands, inflatables, an ice cream truck and much more. For further information […]

Let’s be honest it can be tricky to talk about organ donation and transplantation research. Everyone has a different view, there may be cultural, religious or ethical concerns. The Talking Spaces project, a new initiative from the Blood and Transplant Research Unit in Organ Donation and Transplantation at Cambridge and Newcastle Universities, is about finding […]

Kidney transplantation – why we still need research even after decades of success The first kidney transplant took place in 1954. Nearly seven decades later it is one of modern medicine’s great triumphs, a highly successful operation that has saved and improved countless lives worldwide. Despite that success, there’s still a global shortage of donor […]