Our lab studies innovative ways to regulate the immune system to better manage and treat transplanted patients.

Our research portfolio is diverse, but our goal is singular: to redefine the boundaries of transplant medicine.

World’s First Genetically-Edited Pig Kidney Transplant into Living Recipient Performed at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Under the leadership of Leonardo V. Riella, MD, PhD, Medical Director for Kidney Transplantation, a genetically-edited pig kidney with 69 genomic edits was successfully transplanted into a living patient.

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π—¦π—”π—©π—˜ π—§π—›π—˜ π——π—”π—§π—˜ for the ISN Webinar: "Pioneering Xenotransplantation: The World’s First Genetically-Edited Pig Kidney Transplant in a Living Recipient"

πŸ—£οΈ @LVRiella, Winfred Williams
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πŸ—“οΈ November 15
πŸ•‘ 2 pm CET
πŸ”— Free registration: https://ow.ly/eUS450U0nRm

Great case presentation at Renal Grand Rounds by Ashima Chadha @MGHKidneys @BWHKidney 🩺 Scleroderma Renal Crisis:A rare but life-threatening complication of systemic sclerosis.Early signs include sudden high blood pressure & acute kidney injury+/- TMA. Low-risk of tx recurrence

Bringing CRISPR diagnostics for pointofcare genetic testing of kidney disease. Great collab with Michael Kaminski. From my lab, kudos to @lapeisa for all her major contributions

Such a pleasure of being part of such an amazing team, advancing bioengineering of kidneys! Thanks to @JenniferALewis1 leadership, all incredible researchers Ryuji, especially@ThiagoJBorges who got us to the finish line @WellcomeLeap and @AnnieMoisan_wl Cara #HOPE @mgh_transplant

Great to be part of the 2024 Center for Transplantation Sciences Research Symposium @mgh_transplant over 120 researchers, PhDs and post-docs working in #transplantation #research

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