The year 2024 saw the first living person to receive a pig kidney transplant
Robert Montgomery with a genetically modified pig kidney in the operating room during an organ transplant
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On March 16, Richard Solomon became the first person alive to receive a genetically modified pig kidney. Less than a month later, Lisa Pisano became the second. Now, Tawana Looney is the third, having undergone the procedure on November 25.
He said that the three surgeries represent a major breakthrough in the field of organ transplantation, the transfer of animal organs to humans, and have laid the foundation for a small human trial that we hope to begin within a year. Robert Montgomery At NYU Langone…