Pilot Grants and Xenotransplantation: Department of Surgery Grant Fuels Research
When Steven Kim, MD, began exploring new questions in xenotransplantation research in 2023, the path ahead wasn’t a paved yellow brick road. The field of xenotransplantation, which focuses on transplanting organs across species, continues to hold a reputation more in the realm of science fiction, thanks in part to challenges faced by pioneering transplant surgeon-scientists before advances in genetic engineering had caught up to their earliest attempts.
