TransMedics is playing an important role in saving the lives of thousands of Americans every year. As the inventor of its patented Organ Care System (OCS), it is the only FDA-approved technology to transport lungs, hearts, and livers within the United States.

When a registered donor becomes deceased due to either brain or circulatory death, its OCS keeps their organs functional and vital long enough to be transplanted into another patient anywhere in the country. It is significantly more effective – and is even less expensive – at keeping organs alive and healthy as compared to competing technologies such as the abdominal normothermic regional perfusion (A-NRP). In addition to developing the OCS, TransMedics also recognized that time is of the essence in this life-or-death industry. Transplants need to happen as quickly as possible, so logistical efficiency would be just as important as organ preservation. As such, TransMedics is buying its own fleet of private aircraft and is training its own in-house pilots to deliver the organs to exactly where they are needed. Its National OCS Program (NOP) is essentially “organ transplant as a service”, handling everything that’s required to get a healthy organ from the donor directly into the hands of the transplant surgeon.

In the words of its founder and CEO Waleed Hassanein:

"Transmedics does two essential things: it keeps donors’ organs alive and healthy for much longer than any other product on the market. And it solves all the logistics involved in recovering the organ, transporting it to where it needs to go, and servicing it fully in accordance to all health-care-standards, all the while keeping it in the best condition possible until it begins its second journey in the body of another human… whose life the organ will save.

It’s a genuine miracle and I want you to acknowledge it!"

TransMedics is headquartered in Andover, Maryland and has 501 employees.