India, May 8 -- A research project between RWTH and Uniklinik RWTH Aachen explores opportunities for implementation of live kidney paired donation in Germany. Key issues include the possibility of manipulation and data privacy issues.

Incompatibility between the candidate recipient and the prospective donor is a major obstacle to living-donor kidney transplant. Live kidney paired donation can solve the problem of donor-recipient incompatibility by matching them to another candidate and living donor for an exchange of transplants such that both transplants are compatible. While kidney paired donations have already been established for years in many countries, the current legal situation prevents their implementation in Germany.

In a DFG-...