We review our experience on kidney transplantation from cadaver donors in our center for the past 5 years. Between July 2000 – September 2006 we had 61 cases of brain dead patients, from whom 122 kidneys were harvested and transplanted to 114 recipients in our center. All cadaver donors were brain with mean age of 22.3 years (range: 5-56 years). Mean ischemic time was 3.1 hours (range: 1-18 hours). The mean distance between harvesting center and our center was 65 kilometers (0-400 km). In the recipients although 85 % of cases produced urine immediately after transplantation and in the remaining it took up to 14 days but longer follow up is not completely available because surveillance for some of these patients has been done in other centers and neighboring provinces but according to our nephrology department data base 62 of these 114 recipients including three who received enblock kidney transplantation (totally 65 kidneys) receive their immunosuppressive therapy at our center without requiring to dialysis. After transplantation Mean follow up time of these patients were 3.5 years (range: 5-60 mo). As all of the 62 patients who had adequate follow up had excellent graft function, the 3 years graft survival is at least 55 % assuming that all of the other 52 patients who lost to follow up had no graft function. It can thus be presumed that 3 years graft survival in all of 114 patients is much higher than this 55 % figure. Cadaveric donors in developing countries including Iran can be an excellent sources of organ donation.