Nature’s round-up of innovations that are poised to make a splash in the year ahead. Michael Eisenstein Nature 649, 1065-1069 (2026) From quantum computing and mRNA therapeutics to artificial-intelligence-powered climate…
Leonardo Riella01/2026
Boston, MA — (Jan 8th 2025)— Ourt team at Massachusetts General Hospital have published the first comprehensive immune analysis of a gene-edited pig kidney transplanted into a living human, providing…
Leonardo Riella01/2026
We are honored that our publication on the first gene-edited pig kidney transplant into a living human recipient (link) has been selected by The New England Journal of Medicine as…
Leonardo Riella01/2026
Conventional and Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound Imaging in Two Human Kidney Xenotransplant Recipients.
Transplantation. 2025 Oct 15. Bodard S, Mojtahed A, Sertic M, Pierce TT, Cochran RL, Goiffon RJ, Riella LV. Abstract: Background: Kidney xenotransplantation offers a promising novel solution to the…
Leonardo Riella11/2025
Am J Transplant. 2025 Dec 15:S1600-6135(25)03168-5. Authors: Crisler WJ, Win TS, Kauke-Navarro M, Zhan Q, Barrera V, Sui SH, Laga AC, Teague JE, Riella LV, Azzi J, Pomahac B, Clark…
Leonardo Riella10/2025
I am pleased to share that Massachusetts General Hospital recently hosted the inaugural Richard Slayman Clinical Xenotransplantation Workshop, co-directed by Dr. Leonardo Riella and Dr. Tatsuo Kawai. This landmark event…
Leonardo Riella06/2025
This week, we officially launched the International Transplantation Science Meeting 2025, a global collaboration between the American Society of Transplantation, The Transplantation Society, and the European Society for Organ Transplantation.…
Leonardo Riella03/2025
Please help us evaluate the efficacy of the COVID vaccine in Transplant Patients! The emergence of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) vaccines has brought great hope to all of us in the middle…
Leonardo Riella02/2021
Interesting review entitled The unmapped chemical complexity of our diet by Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, Giulia Menichetti & Joseph Loscalzo Nature Food volume 1, pages33–37(2020) Abstract Our understanding of how diet affects health is limited to 150 key nutritional…
Leonardo Riella04/2020