2 people receive kidney transplants in pilot program using CMU software

Tuesday, December 14, 2010 - 11:02 in Mathematics & Economics

A man in St. Louis and a woman in New Hampshire have received the first kidney transplants made possible through a new national program of the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) that uses a Carnegie Mellon University computer algorithm to match transplant candidates with living donors.

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