Methuselah Foundation's New Organ Prize

Expediting the Solution to Organ Failure:

We challenge scientists to duplicate and successfully transplant a fully functioning new organ made from a patient's own cells by 2020.

NewOrgan Prize will be awarded to the first scientist to make regenerative organs a reality. The US Department of Health & Human Services has stated, "Regenerative medicine will be the standard of care for replacing organ systems in the body." This Prize will be the catalyst to speed up the process and make the vision a reality.

History shows us that prizes have proven to be the most powerful tool for inspiring radical scientific breakthroughs. The effort, interest and ingenuity that a prize generates are remarkable. Breakthroughs result along the way and, eventually, go above and beyond the original goal. New organ engineering will require the development of all tissues that build the organ including muscle, nerves, arteries and veins. The possibilities are extraordinary!

The challenges and limitations of the current system for organ replacement are well documented: the agony of waiting for a donor to die; lifelong limitations from immunosuppressant drugs; possible organ rejection. And the reality that many die without receiving a new organ or even qualifying to be considered.

A System for the Future: NewOrganomics

We envision a world where everyone who needs an organ gets an organ. And, in the Methuselah Foundation quest for everyone to live a long healthy life, we advocate a system that provides new organs and long-term health. We call that system NewOrganomics.

The promise of NewOrganomics is to provide a new organ to any patient in need, not from a donor or from the black market but rather built from their own cells. NewOrgan Prize was created to reach this ambitious goal. We need your support to make it happen. Be Organomical, donate today.

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