MANCHESTER, N.H. —
A New Hampshire man received a successful pig kidney transplant in June, a biotech company announced Monday morning.
Bill Stewart, 54, received the kidney on June 14. He was discharged from Massachusetts General Hospital a week later and today, he no longer requires dialysis.
Stewart had been receiving dialysis three times per week for more than two years before the transplant, according to a news release from eGenesis, a biotech company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Stewart is the second person to receive a genetically engineered pig kidney, known as an EGEN-2784 kidney, through this eGenesis study.
The first person to do so was also from New Hampshire . Tim Andrews, 67, of Concord, received his pig kidney on Jan. 25, 2025, and now seven months post-transpla