The Promise to Transform Medicine
The ability to replace organs and tissues on demand could save or improve millions of lives each year globally and create public health benefits on par with curing cancer. Unmet needs for organ and tissue preservation place enormous logistical limitations on transplantation, regenerative medicine, drug discovery, and a variety of rapidly advancing areas spanning biomedicine.
Focus & Lead Program
Cover of Nature Biotech featuring high-subzero preservation of human livers funded by NIH, DoD and our company.
Second time the Head of the National Institutes of Heath (NIH), Dr. Franscis Collins, heralds this science (and calls it “super cool”).
Science
SUPERCOOLING EXTENDS PRESERVATION TIME OF HUMAN LIVERS
SUPERCOOLING PRESERVATION AND TRANSPLANTATION OF THE RAT LIVER
Team
Sylvatica's founding team has a strong track record of bringing technologies from idea to clinic via venture capital funding, FDA go-aheads and IPO.
Media
Doctors have put human livers in suspended animation
Supercooling organs could save the lives of people on transplant waiting lists.
A Human Liver Can Be Cooled to -4 Degrees Celsius and Survive
A new technique can preserve the organ outside the human body below the freezing point.
Wait not in vain
After decades of piecemeal progress, the science of cryogenically storing human organs is warming up
Cryopreservation aims to engineer novel ways to freeze, store, and thaw organs
Five years ago, even top cryobiologists doubted that a human organ would ever be successfully frozen and thawed.
U.S. Funds Efforts to Freeze Human Organs for Long-Term Storage
A glimmer of hope emerges for preserving transplantable livers and hearts in cold storage.
Talks & Events
STIR 2018: A Collision of Uncommon Concepts and Conversations About Healthcare
(start at 5:39, if it does not automatically start there)
White House Organ Summit
Harvard Organ Banking Summit
(start at 5:20, if it does not automatically start there)
