Sentences with phrase «pioneered organ transplantation»

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Stanley C. Jordan, MD, director of Kidney Transplantation and Transplant Immunology, is a prominent pioneer in designing treatment approaches that have significantly reduce the amount of antibodies, thereby reducing the risk of organ rejection.

Moore vividly re-creates the life of this Scottish pioneer, who was noted not only for his innovative surgical techniques but also for his investigations into organ transplantation (he implanted a cock's testicle into a hen's belly) and animal dissection (he carved up a giraffe and several whales).

Ex-vivo organ perfusion (EVOP), pioneered at Cleveland Clinic, is rapidly emerging as a potential superior preservation technology over cold storage in clinical transplantation.

However welcome the recent announcement that a team of scientists based at Newcastle University, has grown a section of human liver using stem cells from umbilical cords, rather than from the more controversial source of embryonic stem cells, and whatever the eventual promise or potential of harvesting organs for transplantation from genetically modified pigs, the benefits of either of these two pioneering techniques to currently dying / suffering patients, remain both elusive and distant.