The ability to replace organs and tissues on demand could save or improve millions of lives
each year globally and create public health benefits on par with curing cancer. Unmet needs …

Due to the ongoing shortage of deceased-donor organs, novel strategies to augment kidney
transplantation rates through expanded living donation strategies have become essential …

Marketplaces are often small parts of large markets, and both markets and marketplaces
come in many varieties. Market design seeks to understand what marketplaces must …

We propose a scalable, data-driven method for designing national policies for the allocation
of deceased donor kidneys to patients on a waiting list in a fair and efficient way. We focus …

Renal transplant candidates with high levels of donor-specific anti-HLA antibodies have low
transplantation rates and high mortality rates on dialysis. Using desensitization protocols …

Most algorithmic matches in fielded kidney exchanges do not result in an actual transplant.
In this paper, we address the problem of cycles and chains in a proposed match failing after …

In recent years several countries have set up policies that allow exchange of kidneys
between two or more incompatible patient–donor pairs. These policies lead to what is …

We interview each other about how game theory and mechanism design evolved into
practical market design. When we learned game theory, games were modeled either in …

As multi‐hospital kidney exchange has grown, the set of players has grown from patients
and surgeons to include hospitals. Hospitals can choose to enroll only their hard‐to‐match …

Organ donations from deceased donors provide the majority of transplanted organs in the
United States, and one deceased donor can save numerous lives by providing multiple …