MANCHESTER, N.H. —

A New Hampshire man received a successful pig kidney transplant in June, a biotech company announced Monday.

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 a 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-transplant, he cont

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