Restoring Life Through Tissue Research
We are a no soliciting organization. It’s our policy not to approach donors or donor families. The potential donor or their family must initiate the first contact and express interest in whole body donation. You must reside within 250 miles of Elizabethton, TN in order to qualify for our program which includes, West North Carolina, East Tennessee, and Southwest Virginia.
What Makes Restore Life the Right Choice For Body Donation?
What We Do
Restore Life USA is a non profit organization (501c3) that provides human tissues for medical research and education purposes. We specialize in all types of research from bio mechanical to cell preservation.
We also work with researchers to find cures, therapies, treatments, and an enhanced quality of life for cancer treatments for cancer, ALS, Alzheimer's and to study and better understand psychiatric disorders.
As a non profit we generate funding by providing services to researchers and educators across the country. We do not sell our service or donated speciemns. The researchers and educators cover our cost associated with the transportation, cremation, surgical recovery, tissue preservation, staffing, insurance, and all the cost related to a 24 hour 7 day a week operation.
Restore Life USA also works with Project My Heart Your Heart.
This program through the University of Michigan has the ultimate goal of recycling used pacemakers.
We continue to support other local charities such as the Tweetsie Trail Conservancy, local lake clean up projects Jericho Shriners, Camp Fierfly, and area schools through Donors Choose.
How Does It Work
We strongly recommend all donors pre-register to ensure acceptance; however, it is not required. The donation process begins immediately following the donor’s passing or upon acceptance of a at-need donor. Once Restore Life USA is notified by the appropriate healthcare personnel or the donor family, the donor will be picked up by our staff and will be transported to our donor facility located in East Tennessee. The donor’s cremains, if desired, will be returned in a metal urn to the donor family, within 30 days, and delivered by our staff, if possible.
Thank You
Thanks to the overwhelming support of our partner researchers and educators, we at Restore Life USA are privileged to again to be a sponsor of Camp Firefly, Jericho Shriners, and the local shop with a cop program for underprivileged children. Camp Firefly is a free, one-day camp designed to meet the needs of children and teenagers who have experienced the death of a loved one or similar loss.
ALS Center and Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy
John P. Hussman Institute for Human Genomics
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
The Rufus Brown Fund
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