Dr. Kazuhiko Yamada and Dr. Andrew Cameron will receive funding to advance studies into the use of genetically modified pigs in human organ transplants.
Angela Roberts | The Baltimore Sun
Over the next two years, Yamada and Cameron plan to advance the use of genetically modified pigs in human organ transplants, improving techniques already used in the approach to reduce the risk of organ rejection and failure and to increase the likelihood of a patient’s long-term survival. Human clinical trials could lead to xenotransplantation — the transplantation of living cells, tissues and organs from one species to another — becoming a way of alleviating the nation’s organ transplant shortage, said Cameron, surgeon-in-chief and director of the Hopkins medical school’s department of surgery.
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