Considered one of the world’s foremost experts on transplanting animal organs, known as xenotransplantation, Muhammad M. Mohiuddin, MD, Professor of Surgery at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, established the Cardiac Xenotransplantation Program with Dr. Bartley Griffith, who performed the transplant.

See the historic transplant here:    • First Ever Pig to Human Heart Transpl...  

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