Leiden, 26 September 2025. For the first time, LUMC has used a surgical robot to remove a piece of liver from a living donor and successfully transplant it into a patient. A woman received part of her cousin’s healthy liver. Both the donor and the recipient are doing well. With this type of transplantation, in which a healthy person donates part of their liver, LUMC hopes to offer more people with severe liver diseases a future.
The new LUMC transplantation program Living Donor Liver Transplants (LDLT), of which this transplant on September 19 was part, aims to treat more people with severe liver diseases in a timely manner.
The demand for donor livers is greater than the supply. Every year, patients on the waiting list die due to a shortage of donors. LUMC is one of three centers in the Netherlands that perform liver transplants. These are complex and life-saving operations for patients with, among others, liver failure, liver cancer, or cirrhosis. In the Netherlands, this involves about 200 to 250 liver transplants per year
This strategic move allows us to better integrate into this unique community, empowering us to strengthen collaborations with leading researchers and provide exceptional, on-site support to our partners in life science research and pharmaceutical development.
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