Where Discovery Creates Hope – August 2022
When George Surratt received a liver transplant from the University of Minnesota, he felt like the luckiest man in the world.
Nine years later, when he again turned to doctors there for a kidney transplant, he wondered if lightning could really strike twice.
George did get the transplant, and not only did he feel like the luckiest man, but the most thankful, too.
In August’s edition of Where Discovery Creates Hope, we meet George and the doctors at the University of Minnesota Medical School revolutionizing organ transplants for patients like him.
With more than 13,000 transplants done each year at the U of M alone, the procedure is both incredibly common and incredibly necessary. But challenges still remain.
Doctors like Dr. Andrew Adams, a professor, researcher and surgeon at the U of M, are working to develop drugs to help the body better accept transplants and even to edit the DNA of animal organs for human transplants.
“This used to be science fiction,” Dr. Adams said. “Now it’s looking like the future of transplantation. I’d say in the next three to five years we’ll see clinical trials.”
