Dr. Robert Montgomery has been recognized by Newsweek as one of America’s Greatest Disruptors.
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Robert Montgomery, MD, DPhil, the H. Leon Pachter, MD, Professor of Surgery and chair of the , has been recognized by Newsweek as one of America’s Greatest Disruptors.
Dr. Montgomery, who is also director of ٺƵ’s Transplant Institute, was acknowledged for his breakthrough xenotransplantation of a genetically modified pig kidney to a human. The organ functioned as a healthy human kidney for 54 hours. The recipient was recently deceased and maintained on ventilator support. Dr. Montgomery expects that a live human could receive such a kidney within a year—paving the way for a sustainable source of life-saving organs for the thousands of people who die waiting for one each year.
“This paradigm just isn't working,” he says. “We need a renewable, unlimited source of organs.”
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