1967 — Living donor kidney transplant (Ohio State’s first organ transplant)
1983 — One of the first centers in the U.S. to study cyclosporine, an immunosuppressant that revolutionized transplantation
1984 — Liver transplant (first in Ohio)
1985 — Pancreas transplant
1988 — Combined kidney-pancreas transplant
1986 — Heart transplant
1998 — Lung transplant
1999 — Double lung transplant
1999 — Laparoscopic kidney donor surgery
2005 — Combined heart-double lung transplant kidney paired donation
2006 — One of very few sites in North America approved to process pancreatic islet cells for transplantation that may cure type 1 diabetes
2006 — Fourth institution in the country certified to implant the temporary CardioWest™ Total Artificial Heart, which serves as a bridge to transplant
2011 — Islet cell transplant
2011 — Six-way kidney transplant – largest living donor kidney transplant chain performed in Ohio to date
2016 — Lung-kidney transplant (only 37 performed is U.S. since 1995)
2016 — One of only 20 centers nationwide chosen to participate in the NOVEL clinical trial with XVIVO Perfusion, potentially doubling the donor pool of lungs for transplantation
2017 — Split liver transplant
2018 — Living donor liver transplant (one of two locations able to perform in Ohio)
2018 — One of a select few transplant centers currently involved in the normo thermic ex-vivo liver perfusion clinical phase study
2019 — Heart-liver transplant
2020 — Eight-way kidney transplant – largest single-institution living donor kidney transplant chain performed in Ohio to date