
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…




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…

"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