New AHA Grant for Mary Garry, PhD

The American Heart Association has awarded Professor of Medicine Mary Garry, PhD a Transformational Project Award grant for her research project entitled “Development of Long Term Cultures for Enhanced Interspecies Chimerism.”
The goal of this work is to engineer a rapid system to test ideal conditions for producing human organs in pigs for transplantation. The ultimate goal of these studies is to significantly increase the number of life saving human organs for transplantation.