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NEJM Interview: Dr. Richard Pierson on the implications of recent efforts to transplant pig organs into humans.

Published: May 18, 2022, 3:01 p.m.

b'Dr. Richard Pierson is the scientific director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Transplantation Science and a professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing Editor of the Journal. R.N. Pierson III. Progress toward Pig-to-Human Xenotransplantation. N Engl J Med 2022;386:1871-1873.'