The 2023 AATB Annual Meeting in National Harbor, Maryland, will provide an opportunity for members to showcase their work in support of tissue banking across all disciplines. AATB is seeking submissions in both the scientific and administrative categories. The deadline for submissions is Friday, May 26, 2023. Submit your abstract today!

LDI Solutions recently joined AATB as a new Affiliate Member. LDL Solutions aims to be philanthropic in their community and create an employee atmosphere of ownership and camaraderie around a common cause. They develop innovative solutions to improve how work gets done, with an emphasis on protecting the environment and human health. They use material science, chemistry, engineering, and innovation to grow and create jobs for people with an entrepreneurial spirit, customer-oriented mentality, and thirst to continuously improve. Through LDI Medical, they focus on developing innovative medical products to contribute to a safer, higher quality level of care throughout healthcare and deathcare. Learn more about LDI Solutions, other AATB Affiliate Members, and Affilate Membership today.

The Donate Life America Clinical Partners Outreach Committee is looking for feedback from those in the clinical field to identify the needs of clinical partners in promoting organ, eye, and tissue donation (including living organ donation and birth tissue). Please complete the survey to share your input on best practices and suggestions. All those who complete a survey and provide contact information will be entered to win one of several prizes. The survey closes March 31, 2023.

Join us September 17-20 at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland, for the 2023 AATB Annual Meeting. Registration opens in June.

AATB's call for session proposals is an opportunity for AATB members to contribute their ideas for topics and speakers to the 2023 AATB Annual Meeting. Submit your idea today!

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Researchers have discovered that a class of regulatory T cells (Tregs) will migrate from the gut to heal muscle damage and damaged organs.

Physics World
Embedding neural tissue with electronics will allow researchers to study electrical signaling in the nervous system.

Phys.org
A study found that the curvature of biomaterials can prevent or help create new tissue.

Yale School of Medicine
Researchers have studied tissue cells, but a team at Yale has discovered the importance of studying the proteins that make up those cells.

SciTechDaily
Organ damage has been found in 59% of long COVID-19 patients after a year from when symptoms began. This ranges from patients who were severely affected and patients who were only mildly affected.

Join AATB and Dr. Jim Caruso, Chief Medical Examiner and Coroner for the City and County of Denver, on March 15 for a webinar discussing the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System operations.

Dr. Margaret Warner, Injury Epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, joins AATB on March 22 to take a deep dive into mortality statistics, cause and manner of death, overdose rates, and pediatric mortality data.

Winston-Salem, North Carolina: Miracles In Sight seeks energetic, compassionate individuals for remote Donor Center Coordinator positions in our 24 / 7 Donor Call Center. Donor Coordinators work closely with grieving families to facilitate eye tissue donation for corneal transplant and research in the U.S. and around the world.

Rochester, New Hampshire: Based in Rochester, New Hampshire, LDI Solutions has a goal to be philanthropic in our community and create an employee atmosphere of ownership and camaraderie around a common cause. We develop innovative solutions to improve how work gets done, with an emphasis on protecting the environment and human health.

Redlands, California: Play a key role in enhancing the safety and efficiency of transplantation and transfusion by joining the dynamic ICCBBA team to help guide the maintenance and future development of the ISBT 128 Standard, including emerging standards on electronic data transfer.