Transplantation

European grant

ERC Starting Grant for research on organ trafficking and healthy generations

Criminologist Frederike Ambagtsheer and pediatrician Romy Gaillard from Erasmus MC have both been awarded a Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). They will use the €1.5 million grant for research into organ trafficking and the embryonic origins of cardiovascular diseases.

Transplant surgeons performing a liver transplant.

Transplantation

New surgery method: a day of rest gives donor kidney a better start

Erasmus MC Transplant Institute has started using a new surgical method for patients requiring a double transplant, namely that of a kidney and a liver.