College research fellow awarded Wellcome Trust funding

Abstract

This year, US surgeons made huge advances in the transplant world by carrying out the country's first face transplant and first double hand transplant. Although successful life-saving organ transplant operations, including heart, lung and liver, are now commonplace and only limited by the number of donors available, the number of 'non-life-saving' transplants remains relatively low, with around 40 hand transplants having been carried out worldwide.