VCU wins approval to start lung transplant surgeries
VCU Health announced Wednesday it has received approval to start lung transplantation surgeries at its Hume-Lee Transplant Center, becoming one of three facilities in the state providing lung transplants. “This will be extremely beneficial for the hundreds of patients living with advanced lung disease in Eastern and Central Virginia,” Dr. Marlon Levy, interim VCU Health […]
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 […]