University of Michigan Transplant Center

01/18/2025

11/20/2024

Let’s go! Go Blue!!!

Be a Hero may be over but you can still support your favorite Wolverines!
1️⃣ Donate on-campus by 11/27 to help beat OSU in Blood Battle. (Visit redcrossblood.org, sponsor code “goblue”)
2️⃣ Donate at any drive by 12/7 and verify at bigten.org/abbott for We Give Blood competition against other Big Ten schools.

11/20/2024

Wolverines For Life

11/15/2024

https://youtu.be/o1-B6wtuPU0?feature=shared

You can make a difference and help someone in need. Sign up now for Be a Hero at the Big House and The Big Ten"We Give" Blood Drive: https://bigten.org/abbo...

11/15/2024

SPECIAL GUEST ALERT! 🚨 Nimari Burnett from the U-M Wolverines Basketball Team will make an appearance at this Sunday's Be a Hero at the Big House from 9 am to 11 am. Stop by to meet this rising star!

11/15/2024

See You Sunday at Michigan Stadium!

Looking for a weekend activity? Come to the Big House Sunday, Nov. 17 for the annual Be A Hero. Guests can donate blood, register to be an organ donor, win prizes and more with a view of Michigan Stadium from the Jack Roth Stadium Club.

To learn more, visit https://www.uofmhealth.org/beahero

11/13/2024

Go Blue! Donors Save Lives!

11/12/2024

Donating Blood in the next 3 weeks? Donated Blood since September 26? Please submit proof of your donation via the Big Ten web site and help the University of Michigan beat all of the other Big Ten schools... and we can win the $1,000,000 prize! Please share this information with everyone!

The We Give Blood Drive

05/27/2024

A Michigan Medicine surgeon builds a sustainable kidney transplant program in Rwanda.

05/18/2024

Today’s Youth Summit at the Big House was a vibrant gathering designed to share and encourage middle schoolers to consider healthcare careers and pursuits.

04/23/2024

It's Month! Here is the third in our trilogy of videos featuring donor stories. Thank you to every donor, everywhere!

04/12/2024

Today is National Blue & Green Day! 💙💚 Every year, we love seeing this incredible community honoring donors and sharing gratitude for the gift of life in your beautiful blue & green. 🏆

04/10/2024

It's ! We are grateful for every organ donor who makes a difference in the lives of others. Today we are pleased to present our second Donation Stories video for 2024 Donate Life Month.

04/03/2024

We are celebrating Living Donor Day! Thank you to all of the living donors who gave a kidney or part of their liver to someone in need.

03/15/2024

Attention Transplant Recipient Children Ages 8-15.
Apply now to attend summer camp for FREE this July accompanied by UM Transplant medical staff. Camp Michitanki ("Michigan Transplant Kids") will be hosted once again at Flying Horse Farms - a safe, fun, inclusive and amazing place for people of all abilities and experience levels. Applications must be received by April 1.
Over 30 campers have already submitted applications and there is room for more! Transportation is provided to and from camp departing from Ann Arbor. Read all about it, see last year's camp video, and apply today at the link below.

Camp Michitanki is a special week away at camp for children who have received liver, heart or kidney transplants. Specialty medical staff include a U-M pediatric transplant physician and U-M nurses and additional staff members working alongside Flying Horse Farms staff. Heralded as the "best week of...

03/14/2024

Our Giving Blueday giving window has been extended until NOON TODAY! Please consider making a gift and sharing the opportunity with others - this is how camp happens for transplant kids and every dollar helps.

Camp Michitanki is a summer camp created by the University of Michigan Health Transplant Center in 2003. It provides an exciting camping experience for children seven to 15 years of age who have had an organ transplant at any hospital. Campers spend six days each summer participating in a variety of...