Leonardo V. Riella (@lvriella) 's Twitter Profile
Leonardo V. Riella

@lvriella

Medical Director of Kidney Transplantation @MGHKidneys @HarvardMed. Clinician, scientist & educator. Tweets are my own

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Honored to join the The Atlantic Health Summit in Boston on April 8 to speak about the first genetically-edited pig kidney transplant into a living recipient — a major milestone in transplantation. Join us. live.theatlantic.com/en/AtlanticLIV…

Honored to join the <a href="/TheAtlantic/">The Atlantic</a> Health Summit in Boston on April 8 to speak about the first genetically-edited pig kidney transplant into a living recipient — a major milestone in transplantation.
Join us. live.theatlantic.com/en/AtlanticLIV…
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Incredible work by @MGH_Transplant and Korkut Uygun’s team—successfully freezing a pig kidney and transplanting it later. A major step toward removing the time limits between organ donation and transplant. Game-changing breakthrough in the making! nytimes.com/2025/04/14/hea…

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🚨 Our new study in @SciTranslMed identified the inhibitory receptor Siglec-E as a critical brake on dendritic cell activation and T cell–mediated transplant rejection. 1/5 science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

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He’s thriving nearly 4 months after receiving a gene-edited pig kidney at Mass General Transplant Mass General Surgery Mass General Kidneys Harvard Medical School. “He was tired of just surviving. A pig kidney gave him a shot at living.” CNN 🔗 cnn.com/2025/05/14/hea…

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"Xenotransplantation — Long Awaited, Much Learned, Much More to Be Learned" NEJM Editorial by Editor-in-Chief, Sandy Feng UCSF Transplant on the paper detailing the 1st xenokidney transplant with American Journal of Transplantation AE Leonardo V. Riella @MGH_transplant as senior author. 10.1056/NEJMe2504399