More than 45 years of cutting-edge research and clinical expertise
The Transplant Center at University of Minnesota Medical Center and University of Minnesota Amplatz Children’s Hospital is one of the oldest and most successful transplant programs in the world. We have more than 45 years of experience in transplant research, innovation and care, providing adult transplants for kidney, kidney/pancreas, pancreas, heart, heart/lung, lung, liver, intestine and islet cell. Our pediatric program provides transplants for heart, kidney, liver and intestine. To date, we have performed more than 10,000 tranpslants.

We lead the nation in living donor transplant success
Living donor transplants at the Transplant Center have some of the highest success rates in the nation. Living-donor kidney and liver transplantation provide patients with another option for transplant and has several advantages over a transplant from a deceased donor – the most important being a shorter waiting time for an organ.

We continue to pursue the latest technology with research on living-donor kidney, liver and multi-organ transplantation.

Innovation, leading-edge technology and research
University of Minnesota Medical Center and University of Minnesota Amplatz Children’s Hospital are the core teaching hospitals of University of Minnesota Medical School. We were the nation’s first officially approved transplant fellow training program. More transplant surgeons have trained here than at any other center in the United States. As part of the nation’s leading academic medical center, research is part of our mission. This allows for leading-edge protocols, surgical techniques, technology, organ donation and recovery techniques and post-transplant care. For example, we developed and pioneered Laparoscopic Surgery. This unique procedure greatly reduces the recovery time and pain for living donors of kidneys. Recovery time is often reduced to two or three weeks compared to up to eight weeks for open nephrectomy.

Our transplant surgeons, professors and trainees have held leadership positions in every major transplant-related professional organization. As one of the top and most respected teaching institutions in the nation, we balance responsiveness to patients’ needs and wishes with access to innovative treatments and technology to deliver superior health outcomes.

Experience, expertise, and excellent patient success -- even with the most difficult cases
University of Minnesota Medical Center transplant recipients include larger-than-usual numbers of:

• older people
• people with certain cancers
• people who have received previous transplants

Many of these complex conditions and "high-risk" patients have been turned down for transplantation at other centers.