The renowned teaching hospital announced the world’s first successful transplant today of a genetically edited pig kidney into a 62-year-old man living with end-stage kidney disease.
Mass General doctors transplanted a genetically modified pig kidney into a living recipient – the first in the world. The renowned teaching hospital Mass General Hospital announced Thursday the world’s first successful transplant of a genetically edited pig kidney into a 62-year-old Weymouth man living with end-stage kidney disease.
The pig kidney was provided by eGenesis of Cambridge from a pig donor that was “genetically-edited using CRISPR-Cas9 technology to remove harmful pig genes and add certain human genes to improve its compatibility with humans,” the hospital added in a release. The breakthrough is critical to addressing “unequal access for ethnic minority patients,” who face systemic barriers resulting in wide health disparities in kidney transplants, said Winfred Williams, Associate Chief of the MGH Renal Division., the incidence of end-stage renal disease, being put on the transplant waitlist and receiving a living donor transplants were lower for Black patients than White and other.
“As the global medical community celebrates this monumental achievement, Mr. Slayman becomes a beacon of hope for countless individuals suffering from end-stage renal disease and opens a new frontier in organ transplantation,” the doctor added.“When my transplanted kidney began failing in 2023, I again trusted my care team at MGH to meet my goals of not just improving my quality of life but extending it,” Slayman said. “My nephrologist, Dr.
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