BiologicTx® Announces Another Successful 6-Way Transplant Utilizing BiologicTx MatchGrid™

TOTOWA, N.J., Oct. 12, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- BiologicTx^® announced today, a successful, single-center, 6-way kidney transplant exchange at the Houston Methodist J.C. Walter Transplant Center in Houston, Texas.  The successful pairing was powered by BiologicTx MatchGrid™, and was performed between June 28^th and July 26^th, under the supervision of A. Osama Gaber, M.D., director of the Houston Methodist J.C. Walter Transplant Center.  The procedure successfully matched 6 kidney donors with 6 compatible recipients, making it one of the largest and most successful single-center, living kidney donation exchanges in the state of Texas.

"It was nearly impossible to perform the complicated matches manually and using this system allowed us to help these six people in desperate need of kidneys," Gaber said.  "This partnership has been a significant asset for our team and has provided us with so many more transplant opportunity options for patients."

"The entire Houston Methodist Transplant Team has a passion to achieve success for their transplant patients that far exceeds clinical requirements and expectations, it is, in a word, extraordinary," said Darrin Carrico, President of BiologicTx.  "We are fortunate to have a partner that has embraced our technology, scientific directors, and clinical services. Dr. Gaber's vision and commitment of his team with BiologicTx will result in numerous transplants for years to come which would not have been possible."

About Houston Methodist J.C. Walter Jr. Transplant Center
The Houston Methodist J.C. Walter Jr. Transplant Center is the largest and most comprehensive transplant center in the Houston region.  Our kidney-pancreas program is one of the fastest growing in the United States, and offers a compliment of complex treatments and services, research and innovative procedures.  Each year, hundreds of patients receive a second chance at life because of organ donation and transplant at Houston Methodist, whether it's of the kidney, pancreas, liver, heart, lung, islet or bone marrow, or through implantation of medical devices.

For more information about the services offered at Houston Methodist J.C. Walter Jr. Transplant Center, please visit http://www.houstonmethodist.org/transplant/locations/texas-medical-center/.

About BiologicTx MatchGrid™
BiologicTx Paired Donation's MatchGrid is an advanced enterprise software application that provides doctors and clinicians with the tools necessary to rapidly and accurately match living organ donors with patients who have willing, healthy, but incompatible donors.  Using advanced matching and optimization algorithms, for a single center, MatchGrid can evaluate all potential matches from 2-way all the way through 12-way combinations in minutes or even longer regional chains, saving transplant centers months of work previously required to assess a smaller number of pairs.  The software can also optimize the number of transplants for a given pool of donor/recipient pairs, ensuring the maximum number of transplants for the most difficult people to match, with the highest quality matches for each transplant hub in a paired kidney donation network.

About BiologicTx^®
BiologicTx^® was founded as the first, solely focused infusion and pharmacy provider of biologic and oral transplant therapy management.  Since then, BiologicTx has expanded its services to integrate transplant therapies paired with digital health technology, providing a complete representation of the patient's response to therapy.  Our team is comprised of dedicated professionals that strive to advance desensitization, immunosuppressive, and rejection treatments worldwide, resulting in progressive and favorable patient outcomes.  We deliver efficient, start to finish services that establish therapeutic services in the home and clinic.  These services act in concert with the transplant center medical team.  In doing so, we provide hope and a better quality of life to our patients.  For more information, visit us at: www.BiologicTx.com.

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