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Revivicor

Revivicor is building a $100 million Montgomery County facility where it will raise genetically modified pigs bred as organ donors for humans. Photo by Don Petersen
Aug 30, 2023

Revivicor’s $100 million pig-organ facility moves forward

By early next year, Blacksburg-based Revivicor will be raising genetically modified pigs in Montgomery County, with plans to harvest their hearts and kidneys for xenotransplantation into human patients. Founded in 2003 as a spinoff company of PPL Therapeutics (the company that cloned Dolly the sheep seven years earlier), Revivicor provided the genetically modified pig heart […]

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