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

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