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Robert Montgomery

Transplant surgeon at NYU Langone who leads its pig-organ transplantation research and who received a donated human heart in 2018.

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United Therapeutics launches world's first pig-kidney clinical trial

United Therapeutics is sponsoring the first xenotransplant clinical trial. Its first patient got a 10-edit pig kidney at NYU Langone in November. The longest a gene-edited pig kidney has worked in a person is 271 days, against years or decades for a human donor organ.

Publishers:gizmodo.com

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