UAB recruits industry leader, eyes major breakthrough in kidney transplants

The University of Alabama at Birmingham has recruited another leading transplant expert as it ramps up its new xenotransplantation program, which aims to complete a successful pig-to-human kidney transplant by 2021. Dr. David K.C. Cooper, a longtime leading expert in the xenotransplantation field, joined UAB on Nov. 1 to co-direct the Xenotransplant Program alongside Dr. Joseph Tector. Tector, one of the nation's most renowned transplant surgeons, was recruited to UAB earlier this year. Cooper…
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