Our mission is to save and heal lives.

MTF is one of the world's largest tissue processors.

We take human tissue, and a lot of people know about organ donation, but not a lot of people know about tissue donation.

We take those tissues as gifts from families.

We turn them into life-saving and life - restoring gifts.

MTF's approach to tissue processing is preserving what is inherent in the tissue, so that when it's used in a patient, it's going to do what it's supposed to do the best way possible.

In addition, we're trying to always find new ways to use the same tissue forms, the human body, into new surgical procedures.

For example, we preserve tendons that could be used in a sports medicine surgery.

A lot of people say, I got a tendon, I had an ACL repair, and they don't even know that they had an allograft, a gift from someone else's family.

We turn bone grafts into spinal spacers to be used in spine surgery.

We preserve different layers of the skin that they can be used in healing burns for burn victims.

It's using dental implants, it's using oncology surgeons for children with osteosarcomas, bone cancers.

About five years ago, I started having some problems with my cervical spine, and they saw that I had cervical stenosis.

The surgeon said, you need an operation, and I wound up getting an MTF, two MTF allografts of tissues that were produced on a machine that when I was an engineer, I built that machine.

So it really has become full circle, seeing what I did as an engineer and what we do as an organization, and helping me personally.

That tissue was processed here in Northeastern Pennsylvania.

190,000 families have said yes to donation for MTF.

We distributed over 420,000 tissues last year.

The company was founded by surgeons, orthopedic oncologists, and they were looking for safe and effective tissue, more of it.

And they wound up creating this foundation.

And they said, let's create a foundation around patients, around families, and around science.

My name is Ed D'Agostino, and I'm a lyophilization technician.

But I've been associated from the beginning, from day one, from the time that it was a concept.

My brother, Dave D'Agostino, was the first tissue donor in the state of Pennsylvania.

He was a pre-med student at the University of Scranton.

He met people that were spearheading and had the idea and the concept of tissue banking.

He had carried a donor card in his wallet, and it was something that he talked to us about as a family.

We have such an important part, I call it a duty to that family.

Again, in the worst time of their lives, they said yes to donation.

They're a part of something big, something bigger, and they can help others.

Every donor has the opportunity to support and heal over 100 individuals.

We had an opportunity to continue to introduce my brother to people.

We had the opportunity to continue to tell his story.

It helped us to feel that every life mattered, certainly his life mattered.

And through his story, through the work here, we can continue to know that as a family.

It's giving them hope that it's a tragedy that they've been through, but we're able to tell the family that you helped a little girl in Florida, you helped a gentleman with his spine in Washington, and you helped lots and lots of people.

And that information is really so important for the family to hear.

The organization has grown.

We had a small operation in Edison, New Jersey, and now we have it company-wide and worldwide.

Right down the street, we have our largest distribution hub that distributes tissues to 54 countries around the world.

I've always been so impressed with the folks from Northeastern Pennsylvania.

Whatever challenge we gave them, whatever goal we gave them, there's a lot of pride, there's a lot of community.

I know and believe and feel very strongly about our core value, that we save and heal lives.

My perspective is from a donor family, where I've seen it not only help the recipient, but also help the donor family heal.

We've always been true to that mission.

When we wake up in the morning, we think about why our founders created this non - profit organization.

It is about taking care of patients.

It's about taking care of families.

It's about advancing science, creating innovation in the space of tissue transplantation.