Australia’s first durable total artificial heart implant Reported successful
On Mar. 11, 2025, researchers at St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney announced the first implant of a BiVACOR Total…
Arsenic Exposure Linked To Increased Risk Of Kidney Disease
On Mar. 3, 2025, epidemiologists at the Texas A&M University School of Public Health have identified a link…
United Therapeutics Announces FDA Clearance of Pig Transplantation Clinical Trial
On Feb. 3, 2025, United Therapeutics, a public benefit corporation, announced that the U.S.Food and Drug Administration (FDA)…
‘Breakthrough’ stem-cell patches strengthened a woman’s failing heart
On Jan. 29, 2025, researchers from the University Medical Center Göttingen announced they have shown that patches of…
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BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart Successfully Implanted in Five Patients as Part of FDA Early Feasibility Study; FDA Greenlights Expansion of the EFS
On Dec. 18, 2024, BiVACOR, a clinical-stage medical device company, announced the successful completion of the first phase…
United Therapeutics Announced World’s First Successful UKidney Transplant
On Dec. 17, 2024, United Therapeutics, a public benefit corporation, announced the world’s first transplant of a UKidney,…
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University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus-Led Team Receives Up to $46 Million to Develop Innovative Treatment to Cure Blindness
On Dec. 2, 2024, the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus announced it will receive up to $46…
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Successful first-in-human implantation of the BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart by Baylor and THI doctors
On Jul. 25, 2024, doctors from the Texas Heart Institute (THI), BiVACOR®, Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center and…
In a first, genetically edited pig kidney was transplanted into a human
On Mar. 21, 2024, Harvard Medical School physician-scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital announced they had successfully transplanted a…
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Trial drug significantly blocked early stages of COVID-19 in engineered human tissues
On Apr. 2, 2020, an international team led by University of British Columbia (UBC) researcher Dr. Josef Penninger…
More than 5,000 lives touched by OHSU Kidney Transplant Program
On Jul. 24, 2019, the Oregon Health Science University (OHSU) Transplant Program – one of the oldest, largest…
University of Washington Medicine performed region’s 1st adult intestineï¾ transplant
On Sept. 11, 2016, the University of Washington Medicine (UW) announced that a medical team became the first…
The Alberta Human Tissue and Organ Donation Amendment Act was passed
On Nov. 8, 2013, the Human Tissue and Organ Donation Amendment Act (Bill 207) was passed. The Act…
The genome of a pig was sequenced by an international consortium
On Nov. 2, 2009, an international consortium lead by Larry Schook at the University of Illinois in Champaign…
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Stanford researchers identified pattern of gene expression shared by transplant patients who stay healthy without anti-rejection drugs
On Aug. 20, 2007, researchers from Stanford University announced they had identified a pattern of gene expression shared…
World Kidney Day was established
On Mar. 8, 2006, World Kidney Day, a joint initiative between the International Society of Nephrology (ISN) and…
The Stanford Hospital Center for Clinical Sciences Research building opened
In 2000, the Center for Clinical Sciences Research building opened, and is an example of a fully integrated…
National Donor Day was founded
On Feb. 14, 1998, National Donor Day was started by the Saturn Corporation and its United Auto Workers…
First adult live-donor liver transplant in New England was performed
In 1998, Beth Israel Deaconess surgeon Dr. Roger Jenkins performed the first successful live donor liver transplantation (LADLT)…
Genentech drug CellCept (mycophenolate mofetil) approved by FDA
On May 3, 1995, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) announced it had approved Genentech’s drug CellCept…
Triple-organ transplant was performed for the first time in the U.S.
In 1995, Brigham and Women’s surgeons performed the first triple-organ transplant in the U.S., removing three organs from…
The Lion’s Eye Bank reached milestone: 10,000th corneal transplantation
On Dec. 8, 1994, the Lion’s Eye Bank of Washington, Northern Idaho and Alaska announced that they had…
12-year-old boy from Everett underwent the first heart transplant at Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical Center
On Oct. 26, 1994, a 12-year-old boy from Everett underwent the first heart transplant at Children’s Hospital and…
Stormie Jones, the world’s first recipient of a successful simultaneous heart and liver organ transplant, died at Pittsburgh Children’s Hospital
On Nov. 11, 1990, Stormie Jones, the world’s first recipient of a successful simultaneous heart and liver organ…
First adult live-donor liver transplant performed at University of Chicago Medical Center
On Nov. 27, 1989, a surgical team at the University of Chicago Medical Center performed a live donor…
BC Transplant (BCT) was established
In 1986, BC Transplant (BCT) was established. BCT directs, delivers or contracts for all organ transplant services across…
Doctors at Children’s Hospital of Pennsylvania performed the world’s first heart-liver transplant
On Feb 14, 1984, the world’s first successful combined heart-liver transplant was performed in Pittsburgh at UPMC Children’s…
Artificial skin was created from living cells for the first time
On Apr. 23, 1981, doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital announced they had for the first time successfully tested…
Stanford Medicine performed first successful human combined heart/lung transplant in the world
On Mar. 9, 1981, cardiothoracic surgeon Dr. Bruce Reitz from Stanford Medicine performed the first successful human combined…
William Lakey performed Alberta’s first organ transplant at the University of Alberta Hospital
On Jan. 15, 1967, Dr. William Lakey performed Alberta’s first organ transplant, a kidney, at the University of…