In the last decade, transplantation across previously incompatible barriers has increasingly
become popular because of organ donor shortage, availability of better methods of detecting …

The field of desensitization and incompatible transplantation has made great gains over the
past decade. There are now several options and effective therapies for many patients who …

Most transplanted kidneys are from cadavers, but there are also many transplants from live
donors. Recently, there have started to be kidney exchanges involving two donor-patient …

We assisted the New York City Department of Education (NYCDOE) in designing a
mechanism to match over 90,000 entering students to public high schools each year. This …

The literature on exchange of indivisible goods finds natural application in the exchange of
live donor kidneys for transplant. However, in kidney exchange, there are constraints on the …

This article discusses some things we have learned about markets, in the process of
designing marketplaces to fix market failures. To work well, marketplaces have to provide …

ContextBlood type and crossmatch incompatibility will exclude at least one third of patients
in need from receiving a live donor kidney transplant. Kidney paired donation (KPD) offers …

In September, 2004, the Renal Transplant Oversight Committee of New England approved
the establishment of a clearinghouse for kidney exchange, proposed by Francis Delmonico …

Background. To expand the opportunity for paired live donor kidney transplantation,
computerized matching algorithms have been designed to identify maximal sets of …

It has been almost a half-century since David Gale and Lloyd Shapley (1962) published their
pathbreaking paper,“College Admissions and the Stability of Marriage,” in American …