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- 28 Nov 2011
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Rethinking the Fairness of Organ Transplants
- 29 Oct 2014
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The Businessman Disrupting Organ Transplantation
- 04 May 2010
- News
An Experimental Solution for Donated Organs
- 02 Dec 2011
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Can Harvard and MIT Make Organ Transplants More Efficient?
- 09 Apr 2012
- News
Harvard Women Entrepreneurs Find Resource in Women's Founders Forums
- 04 Apr 2024
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The Making of a Medical Milestone
On March 16, doctors at the Massachusetts General Hospital made history when they successfully transplanted a kidney from a genetically modified pig to a living human. The groundbreaking procedure marked a significant milestone in animal-to-human transplant, or... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 22 Feb 2024
- News
Combat-Tested Cancer Coaching
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Kathy Giusti (MBA 1985) was diagnosed with multiple myeloma in 1996, she was overwhelmed. It was the pre-Internet era, with limited available information, but... View Details
- 11 Mar 2021
- News
Leading with Heart
overwhelming. In five days, we had more than 250,000 pounds. We had to go back on the radio and appeal to people to stop sending checks because we had no way to even process it. And it was a moment of a deep connection with humanity for me, and a huge sense of... View Details
- 27 Apr 2023
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Life Preserver
challenges of organ transplantation: "There's a massive gap between how many people get to benefit from a lifesaving organ transplant and how many truly need one," explains... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 16 Sep 2024
- News
Life Preserver
“There’s a massive gap between how many people get to benefit from a lifesaving organ transplant and how many truly need one,” says Sebastian Giwa (MBA 2009). He’s spent the last decade trying to change that. In the United States alone, scientists estimate between... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Faculty Research Online
Rethinking the Fairness of Organ Transplants Because of an organ shortage, thousands of people miss out on needed organ View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
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Founding a bone marrow donor bank that saves thousands of lives
chance at life through bone marrow donations, and has registered more than 4 million bone marrow donors worldwide. After losing his first wife to blood cancer, Harf and his wife’s physician launched DKMS. With his daughter, Katharina, Harf has built it into the most... View Details
- 17 Aug 2011
- News
Breath of Life
for other hollow organs, such as the esophagus, where cancer is 20 times more prevalent than in the trachea. Eventually, similar techniques will be applied to the big five solid organs — heart, lung, liver, kidney, and pancreas — though... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Rebel with a Cause
introduced HIV and hepatitis C into his system. Today he’s in full health: a liver transplant cured both the hemophilia and the hepatitis, and tests showed he is naturally immune to HIV infection. This past March Massie was named... View Details
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- 11 May 2017
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Going with the Flow
services enabled anybody having a baby at any hospital in the world to bank the cord blood. Trained obstetricians treated the procedure like an organ transplant, with all of the systems in place. Medical couriers transported the blood to... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 21 Sep 2018
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HBS Association of Southern California Boosts Support for Startups
Point Media in Santa Monica. “It was a fantastic dynamic,” says Alexa McCulloch (MBA 1999), the workshop organizer and president of the club. “We assured each presenter that this was a confidential opportunity to open up and ask... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2011
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Extraordinary People
role that is most important to Harf is being the cofounder and chariman of DKMS, the blood cancer cure bank. Now the most successful organization of its kind in the world, he launched it in 1991 after losing his first wife to blood... View Details
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- 01 Jun 2002
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Alfred L. Cheauré - A Dog's Life
research effort. In 1996, however, Cheauré made a dramatic shift when he parlayed his enthusiasm for purebred dogs into a second career and took the helm of the American Kennel Club (AKC), a $60 million not-for-profit organization devoted... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 14 Apr 2021
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The First Five Years: Mike Gandy Auzenne (MBA 2016)
partnership between a for-profit entity and a nonprofit organization. Organjet is a for-profit company that provides on-demand private jet and ground logistics for patients to travel for an organ transplant... View Details
- 19 Jun 2018
- News
Pittsburgh Alumni Annual Meeting Features PPG’s McGarry
volunteers. “We heard from three organizations,” says the program’s chair, Mark Chussil (MBA 1979). “We selected two, and will field teams for both of them, based on their needs, and the skills and experience of our volunteers.” The winning pitches came from Relay... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley