United Therapeutics Corporation Announces Historic Achievements in its Xenotransplantation Programs - Seite 2

Dr. Rothblatt noted that hundreds of people had made important contributions to UT’s recent xenotransplantation successes, and as leader of the project she wanted to publicly acknowledge three key mentors:

• Dr. Tom Starzl, who served on UT’s Scientific Advisory Board until his passing in 2017, and taught how the body can be induced to tolerate xenografts;
• Sir Magdi Yacoub, who continues to serve on UT’s Scientific Advisory Board and guides the company through multiple transplantation technologies; and
• Dr. Craig Venter, whose team at Synthetic Genomics (now UT’s Exponential Biotherapeutic Engineering group) provided essential porcine gene engineering expertise.

More about UMSOM and the UHeart: UMSOM, along with the University of Maryland Medical Center produced a video of the historic xeno UHeart transplant surgery. Further information can be found at https://www.umms.org/ummc/news/2022/first-successful-transplant-of-por ....

More about UAB and the UKidney: UAB produced an animation of the xeno UKidney procedure. Further information about UAB’s xeno UKidney efforts can be found at go.uab.edu/xenotransplant.

More about NYU and the UThymoKidney: NYU produced an interview with the surgeon who led last year’s UThymoKidney transplant. More information about NYU’s xeno UThymoKidney efforts can be found at https://nyulangone.org/news/progress-xenotransplantation-opens-door-ne ....

More about Unither Bioelectronics and drone delivery: UT’s Unither Bioelectronics subsidiary produced a video of the electric drone delivery of a lung that was subsequently transplanted. More information about Unither Bioelectronics’ efforts can be found at unither.aero.

More about Lung Bioengineering and ex-vivo lung perfusion: UT’s Lung Bioengineering subsidiary is dedicated to increasing the utilization of marginal lungs donated for transplant through the use of ex-vivo perfusion technology. More information about Lung Bioengineering cans be found at lungbioengineering.com.

UOrgans like the UHeart, UThymoKidney, and UKidney are not approved by the FDA. The UHeart transplant conducted by surgeons at UMSOM and UMMC was authorized by the FDA for the treatment of the individual patient. UT hopes to complete clinical trials for its xeno UOrgan products in the coming years and, if approved by FDA, provide a source of organ transplants for the hundreds of thousands of patients unable to achieve them through the organ transplant list.