Pig to Human Heart Transplantation
Title:
Pig to Human Heart Transplantation: What Does the Future Hold?
When:
Thursday, December 8, 2016
2:00 - 3:00 pm Eastern Time
Moderator/Speakers:
Lynn Onken - Moderator
Quality Systems Manager
Nebraska Organ Recovery
Luhan Yang, Ph.D. - Speaker
Co-Founder & CSO
eGenesis
The purpose of this webinar is to introduce and outline the concept of pig to human heart transplantation. Porcine organs are being genetically engineered with the goal to create safe and compatible organs for human transplantation. Historically, this concept was hindered by foreign antigens and physiological incompatibilities of pig organs; however, with advances in the biological sciences, new tools have emerged that are powerful enough to engineer the pig genome on a previously impossible scale. During this webinar, we will learn in more detail about this engineering process, the status of the current research, the ethical considerations, and how this work may unfold and impact future organ transplantation.
Members of the donation community serving diverse populations to include administrators, coordinators, physicians, nurses, surgeons, managers, quality improvement specialists, social workers, and other donation professionals and their colleagues.
At the end of the webinar, participants should be able to
- Describe the concept of pig to human heart transplantation.
- Explain the rationale for the engineering of the porcine genome.
- Identify the current work and ethical considerations surrounding this research.
