Johns Hopkins Medicine to Receive $21.4 Million to Advance Viability of Animal Organs for Transplants and Enable Human Clinical Trials

As part of the worldwide effort to facilitate a research and clinical pathway toward successful xenotransplantation — the transplantation of living cells, tissues and organs from one species to another — two Johns Hopkins Medicine surgeons, Kazuhiko Yamada, M.D., Ph.D., and Andrew Cameron, M.D., Ph.D., will receive a total of $21.4 million in funding over the next two years under two sponsored research agreements with biotechnology company United Therapeutics Corporation.