[The 2018 Activity Report of the Tissue Transplantation and Biotechnology Section of the German Ophthalmological Society].

The Section on Tissue Transplantation and Biotechnology presented its 9th annual report. On the one hand, the number of cornea samples has risen to 10,840, of which 7168 have been transplanted. On the other hand, 1340 transplants have still been imported from abroad and more than 3300 patients were waiting for a transplant at the end of the year. The transplant bottleneck has not yet been eliminated.