Organ and tissue transplantation gives a future to thousands of Americans every year. But surgery is only the beginning.

Transplant recipients leave the operating room and embark on a lifetime regimen of powerful drug therapy designed to prevent their bodies' natural immune systems from rejecting their new, healthy organs.

Researchers at Rhode Island Hospital—the site of New England's most active kidney transplant program—are working to revolutionize quality of life for transplant recipients by developing innovative approaches to immunosuppression.

Your gift to the Ultimate Gift Fund will help to establish and support the Transplantation Research Laboratory at Rhode Island Hospital, where a team of researchers and clinicians led by Anthony Monaco, MD, surgical director of the hospital's division of organ transplantation, will improve the lives of future transplant recipients through this work.