Péter Biró and his Mechanism Design Research Group participated in the development of a software tool called KEPsoft, which has won an Innovation Award from the European Association of Research and Technology Organisations (EARTO).
The four-member consortium representing Hungary’s ELTE KRTK Institute of Economics, founded with the support of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, as well as Óbuda University, won third place in the EARTO (European Association of Research and Technology Organisations) Expected Impact Award for the development of the KEPsoft software. The software is being utilised by KEPsoft Collaborative, a non-profit company established in partnership with the University of Glasgow and INESC TEC Porto.
The full news article can be read in English here.
The KEPsoft software provides assistance to kidney patients who have a relative who would like to donate a kidney to them through a living donor transplant, but for whom this is not possible for immunological reasons. These patients can register for the kidney exchange programme, where patients can exchange donors with each other in order to receive a high-quality, compatible kidney. The software performs quarterly matching in national and international programmes so that as many patients as possible can receive organs of sufficient quality.
sources: mta.hu ; inesctec.pt
