Team in China aims to start trial of pig organs in humans this year

After completing a human trial of modified pig skin grafts last year, a team in China hopes to start the first pig organ transplant trial later this year

By Michael Le Page

Several groups are vying to be the first to transplant organs from genetically modified pigs into people as part of a clinical trial. One of the contenders is a team in China that last year was the first to complete a human trial of CRISPR genome-edited pig skin grafts.

“We plan to do heart or liver xenotransplants within 2022, but we do not have a specific timetable at this moment,” Lijin Zou at the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University in China told …