United Therapeutics Corporation (Nasdaq: UTHR), a public benefit corporation, today announced the world’s first successful transplant of a UThymoKidney™, which the company produced, into a living person on April 12, 2024. This transplant represents several historic firsts for transplantation:
- The first-ever transplant of a xenothymokidney into a living human recipient;
- The first-ever combined mechanical heart pump and organ transplant; and
- The first-ever xenotransplant into a living human using only FDA-approved immunosuppressive medicines
The transplant is the third xenotransplant using United Therapeutics’ xeno organs, following two successful UHeart™ transplants at the University of Maryland Medicine in 2022 and 2023.
The transplant was authorized by U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) under the expanded access pathway and performed by surgeons at NYU Langone Health led by Robert Montgomery, M.D., DPhil. The patient, a 54-year-old woman from New Jersey, suffers from heart and kidney failure. The combination of several chronic medical conditions, coupled with a lack of available human organs for transplant, prevented her from qualifying for human heart and kidney transplants.
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