Martins Lab
In USA there are over 14,000 people on the liver transplant wait list and about 1 out of 7 patients will die before getting a liver transplant. Despite this scenario about 30% of donated livers are not used because of poor organ quality. Our lab focus is on transplant immunobiology more specifically on organ preservation. Our main focus is to increase the tolerance of liver grafts to ischemia and improve the quality of suboptimal grafts by means of machine perfusion preservation.