Background
Organomics was founded in 2006 by John Heaney, a kidney transplant recipient, to address the critical problem of organ procurement.
Having lingered on the transplant waiting list for over a year, John experienced firsthand the frustration, fear and helplessness that define the 100,000 patients currently waiting for a life saving organ.
Disturbed by the increasingly inadequate efforts to remedy the critical organ shortage by both the National Kidney Foundation and UNOS, Organomics emerged to promote living organ donation through the introduction of inventives for organ donors.
Mission
In recognition that:
- the current transplant waiting list exceeds 100,000 people and will likely exceed 120,000 within four years
- the average wait for a transplant is expected to climb to 10 years by 2010
- the recovery of organs from deceased donors cannot meet the demand for life-saving transplants
- increasing the number of organs from living donors is the best and likeliest solution to the shortage of available organs for transplantation
Organomics supports all efforts to test and implement programs that promote incentives as a way to increase the number of living organ donors and eliminate entirely the kidney transplant waiting list.