About the Comprehensive Transplant Center

The Ohio State University Medical Center formed the Comprehensive Transplant Center in 2005, bringing clinicians and researchers from a variety of specialties within one Center. Collaboration among specialists benefits patients by increasing the potential for new discoveries that will improve patient care.

The Comprehensive Transplant Center performs leading-edge research and treatment for kidney, living donor kidney, liver, pancreas, kidney-pancreas, heart, lung, bone marrow and other cellular transplant patients from around the world.

In the early 1980s, research conducted at OSU Medical Center helped revolutionize transplant surgery, making transplantation possible for a vast number of seriously ill patients. Now each year, more than 400 people receive the gift of life – a transplant at OSU Medical Center.

Our program has some of the most impressive outcomes data for abdominal transplants in the nation. View outcomes data

But we’re proud of more than good data. Successful outcomes mean a new chance at life for hundreds of patients.

OSU Transplant Program Facts and Accomplishments

More than 5,250 people have received transplantation services at OSU in the past 40 years
More than 400 transplants are performed annually at OSU
Ohio State's combined kidney/pancreas program is ranked first in Ohio and fourth in the U.S.
OSU ranks among the top ten nationally in success rate and number of abdominal transplants performed
1967: First OSU kidney transplant
1984: First OSU liver transplant and OSU’s first bone marrow transplant
1985: First OSU pancreas transplant
1986: First OSU heart transplant
1998: First OSU lung transplant
1999: First OSU double-lung transplant
Only program in the state of Ohio to gain FDA Approval for Islet Cell Transplantation
Leader in development of steroid-free protocols