The American Association of Tissue Bank’s (AATB’s) accredited non-transplant anatomical donation organizations, or NADOs, of the NADO Council would like to address the recent news story involving a Colorado-based funeral home that was conducting several criminal practices while operating a rogue whole-body donation program.

AATB submitted both oral and written comments for the CMS Skin Substitute Town Hall. 

In 2020, AATB funded research to determine whether there was detectable SARS-CoV-2 viral RNA in the blood of deceased tissue donors. Today, the study results were published in the international journal Cell and Tissue Banking.

Please join us in congratulating the newly elected and re-elected Council Officers who joined the AATB Board of Governors at the conclusion of the AATB Annual Business Meeting Wednesday, September 21, 2022.

Mary was nominated for this opportunity by MTF Biologics, an AATB-accredited organization headquartered in Edison, New Jersey.

The FDA released an official response to AATB's Citizen Petition.

Our dedicated sponsors make the AATB Annual Meeting possible. Thank you to all of this year’s sponsors for their support of the 2022 AATB Annual Meeting.

In May 2022, clusters of monkeypox cases appeared in several countries where it is not endemic.

On Thursday, August 4, The Lancet published Nationwide Tuberculosis Outbreak in the United States Linked to a Bone Graft Product: An Outbreak Report.