Richard Slayman, the Massachusetts man who was the first in the world to receive a kidney transplant from a pig, has died.
The 62-year-old of Weymouth underwent surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital on March 16, receiving a pig kidney with 69 genomic edits. He was released from Mass General on April 3 after weeks of recovery “with one of the cleanest bills of health I’ve had in a long time.”
Massachusetts General Hospital said in a statement that there is no indication Slayman's death was the result of his recipient transplant.
