34 Lives, PBC
34 Lives, PBC
34 Lives, PBC is a medical technology company founded in 2022 and based in West Lafayette, Indiana. It addresses the critical shortage of organs for transplantation by developing and providing an innovative service to preserve, assess, and extend the viability of donated kidneys. By rescuing kidneys that would otherwise be discarded, the company aims to increase the number of successful transplants and save patient lives.
Products & Team
Centralized Kidney Preservation and Assessment Service
The company offers a service for kidneys that are considered hard-to-place or have extended preservation times. The process involves warming the kidney to body temperature using a Normothermic Machine Perfusion (NMP) system, which functions as a small life-support machine. This allows the team to provide the organ with nutrients and measure its function in real-time before transportation and transplantation.
This service rescues donated kidneys that would otherwise be discarded due to the time limitations of traditional static cold storage. It creates a new supply of viable organs for a market with constant, high demand, giving transplantable kidneys a second chance.
Customers face the challenge of having to discard a significant number of donated kidneys each year. This is often due to the limited time window for preservation with traditional methods, making it difficult to find a match for 'hard-to-place' kidneys before they are no longer viable.