Department of Health and Human Services, there are 104,000 people on the National Transplant Waiting List, and 17 people in the U.S. The companies see transplantation as an effective way to deal with a shortage of transplantable human organs. In July 2022, researchers transplanted pig hearts into two brain-dead people to learn more before more transplants into living humans.Ĭonstruction is now underway in the town of Christiansburg, Virginia, to build a facility for Revivicor, the Blacksburg, Virginia, xenotransplantation company behind the 2022 pig-to-human heart transplantation, and United Therapeutics, the Silver Spring, Maryland-based biotechnology company that owns Revivicor. In March 2022, the first person to receive a heart transplant from a pig died, two months after the groundbreaking surgery at the University of Maryland Medical Center. The company behind a pig-to-human heart transplant in 2022 is building a new research and development hub in Southwest Virginia to raise pigs for their hearts and kidneys, for transplantation into people. Business & Finance Click to expand menu.
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