A breakthrough technology preserving livers and kidneys outside the body has won the Royal Academy of Engineering’s 2025 MacRobert Award.
At an awards ceremony in London last night, organ medical technology company OrganOx was presented with the MacRobert Award gold medal and a prize of £50,000 by science minister Lord Vallance.
The award judges described OrganOx’s technology as “medical brilliance powered by engineering magic”.
Spun out of the University of Oxford in 2008, OrganOx was founded with the aim of helping improve outcomes for patients with acute or chronic organ failure.
Designed and built in the UK, its devices have been approved in the US, Europe, Canada and Australia, where it has been utilised in over 6,000 liver transplants to date.
The devices work by maintaining the donor liver or kidney in a metabolically active state outside the body. The organ is continuously perfused with oxygenated donor blood of the same blood type, medications and nutrients at normal body temperature...