2025
Organ Recovery Systems reaches 250,000 kidneys preserved using LifePort Kidney Transporter.
2024
LifePort Preservation Centers reach more than 500 kidneys preserved.
2024
LifePort Preservation Center opens in Philadelphia, PA.
2024
Organ Recovery Systems wins Business Intelligence Group’s 2024 Excellence in Customer Service Award.
2023
LifePort® Liver Transporter by Organ Recovery Systems Wins Fast Company’s 2023 Innovation by Design Award in the ‘Health’ Category.
2023
David’s Transplant Journey is recognized as a Grand Winner in the 2023 NYX Awards in the category of Content Marketing Strategy – Video or Video Series.
2022
Organ Recovery Systems is awarded Gold winner in the Executive Team of the Year category for Best in Biz Awards 2022.
2022
The first liver transplants are performed using LifePort Liver Transporter as part of the PILOT™ Continued Access study.
2022
David Kravitz is featured in Discover Magazine along with the story of how Organ Recovery Systems and LifePort Kidney Transporter were founded.
2021
LifePort Preservation Center opens at University Hospital Newark.
2020
LifePort Liver Transporter is featured in UNOS Insights.
2019
LifePort Liver Transporter makes its television debut.
2019
First patients are enrolled in PILOT™ (Perfusion to Improve Liver Outcomes in Transplantation), a prospective randomized multi-center oxygenated hypothermic machine perfusion study using LifePort Liver Transporter system with Vasosol®.
2018
The LifePort Kidney Transporter is used in more than 100,000 clinical procedures.
2017
LifePort Kidney Transporter is implemented in 250 transplant programs in 40 countries.
2015
Brazil performs national Randomized Control Trial (RCT) comparing HMP on LifePort to SCS.
2013
France becomes the first country to implement a nationwide kidney HMP program, and the tender is awarded to LifePort Kidney Transporter.
2012
New England Journal of Medicine publishes the results of 3-year follow-up data from the 2009 Machine Preservation Trial.
2010
LifePort Kidney Transporter wins the significant silver “Design of the Decade” award given by the Industrial Designers Society of America in the “Solution to a Consumer Problem” category.
2009
New England Journal of Medicine publishes the results of the Machine Preservation Trial at 1-year post transplant.
2007
LifePort Kidney Transporter is featured in Fast Company Magazine.
2007
LifePort Kidney Transporter is granted an Industrial Design Society of America Award in the Catalyst, Honorable Mention category for “A high-tech organ transport solution now used worldwide”.
2006
LifePort Kidney Transporter is recognized by The Art Institute of Chicago as part of its “Young Chicago” Exhibition from November 16, 2006 through April 29, 2007.
2006
LifePort Kidney Transporter is recognized in the Business Week Magazine’s list of Top 10 Devices Changing the World.
2006
LifePort Kidney Transporter is selected for the prestigious Permanent Collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York City.
2006
LifePort Kidney Transporter is featured in the book Design Life Now by Barbara Bloemink, Brooke Hodge, Ellen Lupton, and Matilda McQuaid.
2004
LifePort Kidney Transporter is selected for the Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum’s National Design Triennial, “Design Life Now” exhibition in New York City.
2004
Organ Recovery Systems’ CEO David Kravitz is named in Fast Company Magazine’s “Fast 50” list of global entrepreneurs and innovators.
2004
LifePort Kidney Transporter is granted an Industrial Design Excellence Award.
2004
LifePort Kidney Transporter is awarded a Medical Design Excellence Award.
2003
LifePort Kidney Transporter is selected by Popular Science magazine as one of the year’s top 100 breakthrough technologies in their annual “Best of What’s New Awards.”
1998
Organ Recovery Systems is founded in October.
