After two failed transplant surgeries at a different hospital, our surgeons performed a life-saving kidney transplant while the patient was fully awake.

Our surgeons performed the nation's first known quadruple organ transplant on a patient with organ failure and organ rejection of an earlier double-lung transplant.

Sheila isn’t slowing down any time soon, thanks to a new kidney. Her care team at Northwestern Medicine knew that age is just a number, not something that should prevent a lifesaving procedure.

A landmark study from Northwestern Medicine found that lung transplants outperformed standard treatment when it came to helping study participants live longer. This breakthrough holds promise for improving options for patients with cancer.

When a patient with terminal lung cancer came to us, we reached for the stars. Our care team performed a double-lung transplant, clearing the cancer completely with very little risk of recurrence.

Hannah chose to save a stranger’s life — not once, but twice. Her transplant surgeon, Daniel Borja, MD, joins her to talk about the decision to become a living donor.

A double lung transplant was accomplished with help from a machine that sustained the patient for 48 hours.

Most patients remain on anti-rejection medication for life. But for one Indiana man, the opportunity to be part of a clinical trial, at Northwestern Medicine allowed him to forgo all that and keep living life to the fullest.

Kidney transplants save lives — but lifelong immunosuppressive drugs can cause serious side effects. Dr. Joseph Leventhal from Northwestern Medicine joins Scripps News to share details on a groundbreaking clinical trial using cellular therapy instead of medication.

When other hospitals were not willing to perform a second liver transplant following his battle with stage 1 lung cancer, Andrew traveled to Northwestern Medicine for his lifesaving procedure.

Thanks to the success of the surgery, Northwestern Medicine launched a clinical program to make liver transplants more accessible for patients with stage 4 colorectal cancer.

Tyler and his father Owen participated in a four-way kidney transplant swap. While Owen donated a kidney that day to a patient in Tennessee, Tyler received one from a Tennessee donor.

Northwestern Medicine is celebrating a milestone after performing a record number of lung transplants using new technology known as "lungs in a box."

Surgeons at Northwestern Medicine performed a kidney transplant on a patient who remained awake during the surgery without general anesthesia and was discharged home less than 24 hours after surgery. It's the first awake kidney transplant performed at Northwestern Medicine.

The Northwestern Medicine Organ Transplant Center performed its 10,000th abdominal organ transplant procedure, becoming the first health system in Illinois to achieve that milestone.

Gary Gibbon, MD, a pulmonologist and allergist from Santa Monica, traveled to Chicago for a first-of-its-kind transplant procedure, becoming the first person in the U.S. to receive a double-lung and liver transplant for advanced lung cancer.

Juan Caicedo Ramirez, MD, surgical director of the Northwestern Medicine Liver Transplant Program, discusses the living donor organ transplant process, the Northwestern Medicine Living Donor Program and what a patient can expect when they get a liver transplant.

Aleksandra Gmurczyk, MD, a nephrologist and assistant professor of Nephrology and Hypertension at Northwestern Medicine, donated her own kidney to help someone waiting for a transplant — and to inspire others to do the same.

When Margaret Rainey received a kidney from her daughter, she also got her stem cells. She is part of a clinical trial to use stem cell transplantation in place of anti-rejection medication to protect the donated organ.

Bi-racial couple discovers they are a match after search for a kidney for husband.

Jason Wertheim, MD, PhD, is one of five Northwestern University faculty to be awarded with the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).

Two sisters' tribute to their late father sparked a chain of transplants that changed eight other lives.

About 3,400 people in Illinois await a kidney transplant—many for five years. A Northwestern Medicine team working to make new organs in the lab could cut that wait.

Jacquelyn Charleston has been waiting for a transplant for weeks. A liver from a living or deceased donor could save her life.