UAB awarded $19.5 million grant for new xenotransplantation program
by Press Release from Outbreak News Today on (#19XQQ)
The University of Alabama at Birmingham Comprehensive Transplant Institute has been awarded a five-year, $19.5 million grant from biotechnology magnate United Therapeutics Corporation to launch a pioneering UAB Xenotransplantation Program that both groups hope will lead to genetically modified kidney transplants from pig models to humans by 2021. "More than 8,000 people either died waiting ["]