WEST LAFAYETTE — In the U.S., nearly 7,000 kidneys per year are either recovered for transplant and later discarded, or not recovered at all.
A Purdue University-affiliated startup is trying to change that statistic with new technology to help the more than 100,000 Americans currently needing a kidney transplant.
Renovera, which recently opened space in the Purdue Research Park in West Lafayette, is a new company focused on using technology to recondition discarded kidneys.
Chris Jaynes, Renovera’s CEO, anticipates being about to recondition up to 80 percent of discarded kidneys.
Donated kidneys are most often discarded for logistical reasons, such as being stored on ice for longer than 20 hours, the standard time period for which recovered kidneys are deemed useful in the U.S. In 2019, President Trump signed an executive order to increase pressure on organ procurement organizations to find more transplantable kidneys.
Currently, Renovera, partnered with Purdue University and Purdue Research Foundation, is running tests to prove the validity of the technology. For more information about the Purdue Research Foundation, visit prf.org.
