Organ Recovery Systems
Headquartered in Itasca, Illinois, with a satellite location in Belgium, Organ Recovery Systems is a global market-leading provider of organ preservation products and services. We support 403 transplant programs across 49 countries. In 2025, the company reached 275,000 kidneys perfused with LKT since its launch in 2003. Organ Recovery Systems’ proprietary LifePort platform has also been successfully designed to accommodate donor livers to help improve transplant outcomes for end-stage liver disease patients. LifePort Kidney and Liver Transporters are among a growing family of products and services developed by Organ Recovery Systems to support the Company’s mission of honoring donation as a gift of life, improving outcomes, and helping lower overall costs of care for end-stage organ disease.
Several times throughout the year, ORS team members volunteer to cook at Gift of Life Howie’s House to help ensure all transplant families come back to a home-cooked meal during their stay in Philadelphia.
Supporting Lasting Relationships
We know the importance of having support right when you need it.
That’s why we have a team of clinical and technical advisors at your fingertips, with over 100 years of combined experience.
We also offer a 24/7 Perfusion Helpline and app for support any time—day or night. We’re dedicated to helping you create better outcomes for recipients.
“Organ Recovery Systems has made it very easy to utilize hypothermic machine perfusion! The LifePort Kidney Transporter is very user friendly, and the manual is very clear and easy to understand…As the educator for our organ recovery team ORS has made training my staff very easy by providing great training videos, resources, and in-person training sessions which has been incredibly helpful for our team. The best part about working with Organ Recovery Systems is the support that they offer.”
Amanda Beck, CSA, CSFA
VERSITI INC.
“LKT has set the standard for what a kidney pump is… We see them everywhere. We travel to different cities all across the United States, so we get to see other OPOs’ pumps – what they use – and LifePort is everywhere. It’s good to know that you’re using something that has a universal acceptance amongst other OPOs – and that everybody knows the device. Everybody uses LifePort Kidney Transporter and that gives me peace of mind.”
Ethan Fuqua
NETWORK FOR HOPE
“We’ve been able to utilize more marginal kidneys because of LifePort Kidney Transporter; I’ve witnessed the benefits and increase in transplants. Pumping those kidneys with LifePort Kidney Transporter gives you a better graft, a faster functioning graft… Another great thing about LifePort Kidney Transporter is its simplicity and how well it works. It doesn’t have to be overcomplicated.”
Sadie Everts
NEVADA DONOR NETWORK
“I started using LifePort Kidney Transporter back in 2007, it’s very intuitive and easy to navigate. Everything is where you expect it to be, making it effortless to get it started and to be able to use it right away… LKT has allowed us to accept hard-to-place kidneys. We can pump them for longer periods of time. We can accept kidneys from longer nautical miles now, and it has even allowed us to schedule all our kidney transplants during the day… Back in 2020, we pumped 282 and since then we’ve pumped at least 400 a year. This year we are budgeting to pump at least 500 or more.”
Misty Bergeron
UT HEALTH SAN ANTONIO
“I started working with LifePort around 2014; it was easy to use and facilitated easy cannulation of the kidneys. The pump is a very robust product and always performs very well… We’ve been able to perform more kidney transplants because of LifePort Kidney Transporter. Not only are we using LKT as a preservation device, but since we are able to extend the kidney’s cold ischemia time with LKT, we can now stagger cases. This means we can do living donor and deceased donor kidney transplants the same day without worrying about the kidneys’ viability.”
Erik Ale
TAMPA GENERAL HOSPITAL
“We have been able to pump about 130-140 kidneys a year utilizing LifePort Kidney Transporter and will continue to do so with every kidney that comes our way. We’ve had the pump for three years and our staff is self-taught to clean, assemble, and troubleshoot any issues. The user-friendly design of the pump has enabled rapid adaptation and a seamless transition of the technology. Thanks to LifePort Kidney Transporter we can optimize organ acceptance and utilization, transplanting more patients with excellent graft function… and we didn’t have to add more staff. As a result, we have seen an increase in the number of organs transplanted, faster transplant times, and better volumes of outcomes post-transplant.”
Dr. Sunil Patel
UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER SOUTHERN NEVADA
Awards and Recognition
We’re proud to showcase the awards and recognition we’ve received.
A Team Driven By Values
At the heart of our business is a commitment to honor a donor’s precious gift of life. We do this by developing technologies to help transform transplant patient outcomes and lower overall cost of care. Through delivering truly innovative, high quality, medical devices and support systems, Organ Recovery Systems is at the forefront of revolutionizing donor organ preservation from a simple box of ice. As dedicated toolmakers to the transplant community, we are building upon our expertise and knowledge to help improve the quality and availability of donor organs and thereby, the future of organ transplantation.
Meet the Team
Supporting 403 Transplant Programs in 49 Countries.
Investing in Research For The Future of Organ Transplants
At Organ Recovery Systems, we believe in reinvesting profits into our work. Research into even more sophisticated technology and even better perfusion and transportation methods is vital to our work. We focus on Basic Science, Translational Science, and Clinical Science, as well as funding relevant external studies.
Your work never stops. We’ll keep creating the technology for your success.