Mass General Brigham has announced the successful completion of another gene-edited pig kidney transplant, the first of a three-person pilot study.

The second person ever has received a transplant with a genetically modified pig kidney.

For the second time in less than a year, doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital have transplanted a genetically-edited pig kidney into a living person. The hospital, which completed the world's first xenotransplantation in March 2024,

A team at Massachusetts General Hospital led by Harvard Medical School physician-scientists has for the second time successfully transplanted a genetically edited pig kidney into a living person. The team performed the first surgery of its kind in the world in March 2024.

For the second time, Massachusetts General Hospital has transplanted a genetically edited pig kidney into a human.

A New Hampshire man fought for the chance at a pig kidney transplant, spending months getting into good enough shape to be part of a small pilot study of a highly experimental treatment.

Massachusetts General Hospital announced Friday that Tim Andrews recovered well enough after the Jan. 25 transplant to leave the hospital a week later. Andrews calls himself “a new man,” free from two years of dialysis.