July 27th, 2026
Xenotransplantation Enters a New Era
Harvard Magazine’s Q&A with Leonardo Riella, the HMS Harold and Ellen Danser Associate Professor of Surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital, on the advancement of xenotransplantation. Reilla discusses what the research and medical teams learned from the first successful kidney transplant using a genetically engineered pig kidney developed by eGenesis, a company founded by HMS Professor George Church and former HMS postdoctoral fellow Luhan Yang with support from the Wyss Institute.
