Moving Mountains - A Surgeon’s Fight to Legalize HIV-to-HIV Organ Transplants
UCSF Transplant Surgery - by - June 26, 2017
President Barack Obama signs the HOPE Act legislation in November 2013. Peter Stock (far left) had earlier testified before Congress in support of the legislation, which overturned a federal ban on HIV-to-HIV transplants. Photo by Evan Vucci
UCSF News reports on the epic battle, led by UCSF transplant surgeon Peter G. Stock, M.D., Ph.D., to repeal long-standing federal and state laws banning HIV-to-HIV organ transplantation, this after having served as lead Principal Investigator on a landmark clinical trial demonstrating the feasibility and clinical benefit of such transplants, and, in [...]