Human-interest health feature profiling a patient's transplant journey and the medical team's research-driven efforts to broaden organ-donation possibilities.
Key Takeaways
- NYU performed the world's first HIV-positive-to-HIV-positive lung transplant on March 21, 2026
- Transplant proceeded under an FDA-sanctioned research protocol enabled by the HOPE Act
- Recipient Bertrand Nelson also received a liver the same day and is now off oxygen