Nearly 90,000 people in the US are waiting for a kidney transplant, & 11 people die every day while waiting for a kidney. Wyss startup eGenesis is using technology developed at the Institute to engineer safe & functional kidneys for xenotransplantation, offering a new solution.
A federal grant allowed researchers to develop CRISPR as a tool for gene editing, which eventually led to the ability to genetically modify pig kidneys for safe transplant into humans
