Spain boosts organ transplant, raises alarm over EU needs
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
Plans are underway to reform and strengthen Spain's National Transplant Organisation (ONT) as the country's pre-eminent centre for the transplant of organs, tissues and cells, health minister Elena Salgado has announced. Although the centre's stem cell research activities are to go to the Instituto de Salud Carlos III, the ONT will retain its role as national co-ordinator of the clinical applications of "cell therapy".