Organ donors save lives and help advance medical research.

With news about UAB’s first peer-reviewed, published transplant of genetically modified pig kidneys into a brain-dead human individual, there are many questions about what this means for the future of transplant and how this will save countless lives moving forward.

UAB physicians are working on the next steps to begin compassionate or emergency use of the pig kidneys in living humans. Two major approvals will be required.

In the study published in the American Journal of Transplantation, UAB researchers tested the first human preclinical model for transplanting genetically modified pig kidneys into humans.

Jim Parsons’ legacy paves the way for thousands to potentially receive lifesaving organs through UAB’s xenotransplantation program.

The human preclinical model at UAB provides important knowledge before a Phase I clinical trial can begin for living human recipients. Decades of work by researchers across the world preceded UAB’s first clinical-grade pig kidney xenotransplant.

From its incompatible kidney transplant program to deceased donor programs, to xenotransplantation, UAB continues to seek ways to help patients who face end-stage renal disease.

The infusion therapy can help shrink tumors that are otherwise inoperable.

Record $95 million Heersink lead gift to advance strategic growth and biomedical innovation.

CABG is a commonly performed, lifesaving surgery for patients with heart attacks and severe disease of the heart’s blood vessels. Avoiding a surgery like CABG due to fears of COVID-19 has “drastic implications.”

Diethelm was chair of the UAB Department of Surgery, and built the UAB transplant program.

UAB’s uterus transplant program is the first program in the Southeast and fourth in the United States.

Low or limited health literacy is common among adults in the United States and may affect health outcomes in many ways, according to the government’s Healthy People 2020.

New evidence for sex disparity in liver transplants suggests a change may be needed in how livers are allocated.

Lessons learned on the battlefield have brought about a change in blood usage at UAB.

Patients at UAB now have access to state-of-the-art robotic surgery technology.

Most people refrain from calling attention to an unusual bulge in their lower abdomen. But it could be a potentially dangerous condition that needs to be discussed with your doctor right away.

Watch a bleeding-control demonstration and join in with questions live as trauma surgeons show benefits of kits in public settings.

Wrong shipment of mice led to estrogen breakthrough in trauma survival.