The National Disease Research Interchange (NDRI) is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization that provides project-driven human biospecimen service to academic and corporate scientists. NDRI was founded in 1980 by Lee Ducat, the mother of a diabetic child and a founder of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF), who was frustrated by the lack of information about her son’s condition and hoped for a cure. Today, with funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), as well as other foundations and corporate partners, we provide all types of normal and diseased tissues to researchers studying a wide range of common and rare diseases and disorders.
If you would like to donate organs and tissues for research, you have several options. Our recovery partners can collect biomaterials through:
If you or your next-of-kin are interested in becoming a research donor, please click the “Make a Difference!” button to the right and complete the form.
After we receive your contact form, we will contact you to discuss participation in NDRI’s Private Donor Program and the forms needed to register.
So that we can maintain up-to-date records, we ask that you notify us of any changes to your original information by completing the research donor contact form or by contacting our Private Donor Department at (800) 222-NDRI (6374), Option 5. This would include significant information such as chemotherapy/radiation treatments, eye diseases, surgeries, medications or change in medical status (e.g., insulin requirement for diabetes).
NDRI conforms to all applicable local laws.
Requirements for research are different than requirements for organ transplants, which require healthy donors in certain age groups. It is important to understand that:
You, or someone close to you, may have a debilitating or even life-limiting disease for which there is currently no cure. Medical researchers have made great strides using both normal and diseased human tissue to advance diagnoses, therapies and cures. Not surprisingly, human tissue gives researchers better information than animal tissues in studies of human disease. As scientists get closer to finding cures for many human diseases, donation to benefit research is critical. When you donate tissue or organs upon death or during surgery or transplant, you can help save lives by providing the materials that researchers need to find better treatments for and, ultimately, cure diseases.
NDRI receives thousands of requests for all types of tissue. We process donated tissues and send them to approved researchers in the NDRI network. Your gift may benefit dozens of different research studies. If you prefer, you may specify what type of research you would like your donation to aid (e.g., diabetes, Lou Gehrig’s disease (ALS), HIV/AIDS, etc.), and we will give these studies priority. Your family may request information on the types of studies benefiting from your gift but will not be able to obtain diagnostic information. Our program is confidential, and your information remains anonymous.
In cases when tissues and organs cannot be used for transplantation, your donation can give hope and promise to medical research.
Contact your local transplant program to learn how you can become an organ or tissue transplant donor.
The National Disease Research Interchange (NDRI) is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization that provides project-driven human biospecimen service to academic and corporate scientists. NDRI was founded in 1980 by Lee Ducat, the mother of a diabetic child and a founder of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF), who was frustrated by the lack of information about her son’s condition and hoped for a cure. Today, with funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), as well as other foundations and corporate partners, we provide all types of normal and diseased tissues to researchers studying a wide range of common and rare diseases and disorders.
If you would like to donate organs and tissues for research, you have several options. Our recovery partners can collect biomaterials through:
If you or your next-of-kin are interested in becoming a research donor, please click the “Make a Difference!” button to the right and complete the form.
After we receive your contact form, we will contact you to discuss participation in NDRI’s Private Donor Program and the forms needed to register.
So that we can maintain up-to-date records, we ask that you notify us of any changes to your original information by completing the research donor contact form or by contacting our Private Donor Department at (800) 222-NDRI (6374), Option 5. This would include significant information such as chemotherapy/radiation treatments, eye diseases, surgeries, medications or change in medical status (e.g., insulin requirement for diabetes).
NDRI conforms to all applicable local laws.
Requirements for research are different than requirements for organ transplants, which require healthy donors in certain age groups. It is important to understand that:
You, or someone close to you, may have a debilitating or even life-limiting disease for which there is currently no cure. Medical researchers have made great strides using both normal and diseased human tissue to advance diagnoses, therapies and cures. Not surprisingly, human tissue gives researchers better information than animal tissues in studies of human disease. As scientists get closer to finding cures for many human diseases, donation to benefit research is critical. When you donate tissue or organs upon death or during surgery or transplant, you can help save lives by providing the materials that researchers need to find better treatments for and, ultimately, cure diseases.
NDRI receives thousands of requests for all types of tissue. We process donated tissues and send them to approved researchers in the NDRI network. Your gift may benefit dozens of different research studies. If you prefer, you may specify what type of research you would like your donation to aid (e.g., diabetes, Lou Gehrig’s disease (ALS), HIV/AIDS, etc.), and we will give these studies priority. Your family may request information on the types of studies benefiting from your gift but will not be able to obtain diagnostic information. Our program is confidential, and your information remains anonymous.
In cases when tissues and organs cannot be used for transplantation, your donation can give hope and promise to medical research.
Contact your local transplant program to learn how you can become an organ or tissue transplant donor.