KidneyX Empower: Living Link Prize Challenge
Awards up to $1 million to scalable solutions that increase living kidney donation.
KidneyX's Empower: Living Link Prize Challenge funds interventions that make living kidney donation easier, splitting a $4 million purse across two entry tracks. Track A is for interventions already piloted, judged on impact data and an implementation playbook; Track B is for high-fidelity prototypes, judged on a functional beta or wireframes plus a compliance plan covering accessibility and secur…
The challenge wants informational resources, care models and technology that remove friction from living kidney donation -- across public awareness and mentorship, donor interventions, donor readiness and eligibility, donor-centered long-term outcomes, and sharing successful transplant-center practices. It wants defined end products, not white papers, that can scale nationwide.
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