Gene-edited pig kidney and thymus transplant (IMAGE)

NYU Langone Health / NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Gene-edited pig kidney and thymus transplant

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Robert Montgomery, MD, DPhil, (left) the H. Leon Pachter, MD, Professor and chair of the Department of Surgery and director of the NYU Langone Transplant Institute, and Jeffrey Stern, MD, assistant professor in the Department of Surgery at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, evaluate the surgical site before transplanting the gene-edited pig kidney with thymus into Lisa Pisano’s abdomen on April 12, 2024.

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Joe Carrotta for NYU Langone Health

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