Qureator Achieves World’s First FDA IND Approval Using Only Human Vascularized Organoid Efficacy Data
On Oct. 27, 2025, Qureator announced a major milestone, confirming a fundamental shift in drug development under the…
New Hampshire Man resumes dialysis after living with a gene-edited pig kidney for a record 271 days
On Oct. 27, 2025, a New Hampshire man resumed dialysis after living with a gene-edited pig kidney for…
CareDx Announces Largest Landmark Study of Its Kind on Antibody Mediated Rejection in Heart Transplantation Published in Journal of the American College of Cardiology
On Oct. 23, 2025, CareDx announced the publication of the second study from Surveillance HeartCare Outcomes Registry (SHORE)…
Pig liver transplant into a living person edges it closer to the norm
On Oct. 9, 2025, Beicheng Sun at Anhui Medical University in China and his colleagues have reported the…
First human transplant of kidney modified to have ‘universal’ blood type
On Oct. 3, 2025, scientists have converted the blood type of a donor kidney and transplanted the organ…
eGenesis Announces IND Clearance for EGEN-2784 in Pig Kidney Transplant and Landmark Patient Updates in Ongoing Expanded Access Study
On Sept. 8, 2025, eGenesis announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared its Investigational…
In a first, pig lung survives and functions—briefly—in a person
On Aug. 25, 2025, in a small step forward for the long-struggling field of xenotransplantation, surgeons in China…
CareDx Announces Landmark KOAR Study Published in the American Journal of Transplantation
On Aug. 6, 2025, CareDx announced the publication of the Kidney Allograft Outcomes AlloSure Registry (KOAR) study in…
New Technique Could Increase Infant Heart Transplant by 20%
On Jul. 16, 2025, Duke Health has pioneered a world’s-first technique that could expand by up to 20%…
Tiny human hearts grown in pig embryos for the first time
On Jun. 13, 2025, researchers reported growing hearts containing human cells in pig embryos for the first time….
First human bladder transplant performed at UCLA
On May 18, 2025, a surgical team from the University of California, Los Angeles Health (UCLA Health) announced…
Researchers develop model for real-time monitoring of kidney transplants
On Apr. 28, 2025, researchers at King’s College London, the University of Bristol and Great Ormond Street Hospital…
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HHS starts layoffs of thousands of workers across its agencies
On Apr. 1, 2025, layoff notices began arriving for thousands of employees of the sprawling U.S. Department of…
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…
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…
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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UT Southwestern performed first HIV-positive-to-HIV-positive organ transplant in Texas
On Sept. 2, 2020, UT Southwestern (UTSW) announced that it had performed the first HIV-positive-to-HIV-positive organ transplant in…
OHSU performed the first heart transplant since re-activating program
On Apr. 10, 2020, Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) announced that a 68-year-old Oregonian was recovering at…
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 intestineﾠ 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 Alberta Transplant Institute was founded
On Dec. 16, 2011, the $1.28 million dollar Alberta Transplant Innovation Fund (ATIF) was established to fund research…
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…