Vanessa Heaney

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Global News Podcast · The Happy Pod: Donating my kidney transformed a child's life · 22 Nov 2025 podcast

So yeah, it's been wonderful to connect with them and it's great now to have that relationship with them going forward as well.

Around the world, more than 100,000 people receive organ transplants every year.

But tens of thousands of others die while waiting for these life-saving operations.

Even in countries that have the right medical facilities, a lack of donors combined with problems storing and transporting organs mean there simply aren't enough available.

But a medical technology company based here in the UK has developed a way to preserve donated organs for longer.

which can dramatically increase the number of transplants.

Claire Bowes has been finding out more.

This machine keeps the liver at a normal body temperature and it feeds it blood and nutrients.

The company is called Organox and I spoke to the CEO, Craig Marshall, and Dan Fowler, the head of the laboratory.

Craig, can you describe this machine for us?

Well, here we go.

Press start.

It's actually moving.

Obviously, everything we're looking at is the result of years and years of research.

Where did this begin, Craig?

There are a few benefits.

First, as we've just heard, the surgical teams have more time to prepare for an operation, knowing that the machine is keeping the organ going.

And second, potentially more livers can be used because the machine has a screen which shows the surgeons just how well the organ is actually performing.

David Nasrallah is a liver transplant surgeon who took part in the first clinical trial back in 2013.

So it keeps it alive, we can measure it, and it improves it too?

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