Pig Kidney Transplant Patient 2024. Doctors have performed the first transplant of a genetically modified kidney from a pig into a living human, they announced thursday. (ap photo/shelby lum) in this photo provided by nyu langone health,.

Robert montgomery, who himself received a human heart transplant in 2018, leads the operation to implant a new kind of modified pig kidney into a living patient for the first. The patient was in kidney failure and her immune system would reject a human organ.