It also has the best cost/benefit ratio in terms of both economics and quality of life. However, organ transplantation is confronted to the lack of available grafts, and to failure of the transplant including chronic rejection.
Currently more than 40,000 patients are waiting for OT in Western Europe.
Coordinated efforts are therefore needed to optimise existing strategies and techniques and to increase the availability of transplant material. This project is restricted to organ transplantation.
The objectives of this Project are to ensure a better coordination between national research programmes of the 7 members. The extent of variability among countries organisations is very important.
A limited number of points are considered to focus our coordination activities :
- expansion of donor pool,
- improving efficiency and equito -allocation rules,
- improving quality and security in OT
- improving evaluation methodologies,
- benchmarking of dedicated research programmes,
- ethical and legal issues raised by these different questions.
