Professor Gregory Snell

Special Research Grant (2004-2006)
Alfred Hospital, Vic.

“A multi-organ preservation & procurement strategy from non-heart beating donors (NHBD)”

“We set up experiments that lead to clinical programs and changes in process within the hospitals and Intensive Care Units – first of all in Melbourne, later in Victoria and now across Australia and indeed elsewhere in the world. These processes have now delivered us 110 lung transplants at The Alfred Hospital and another 140 elsewhere in Australia. Several hundred kidney transplants have followed here in Victoria.”

“Although the details of the report remain confidential they confirmed that we are running one of the largest lunch transplant programs in the world servicing southern Australia and have achieved the world’s best outcomes with a 98% one year survival and 95% two year survival in recent times. Our waiting list has dropped from an average of six months to now an average of three months and our deaths on the waiting list have dropped from 29% most recently to 3%.”

“We have had multiple presentations to the world and our approach is now adopted in many countries.”

Co-Investigators: Associate Professor Frank Rosenfledt, Dr Takahiro Oto & Dr Leif Eriksson