{"id":134944,"date":"2022-01-30T14:24:14","date_gmt":"2022-01-30T22:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/dr-david-k-c-cooper-md-phd-mgh-harvard-xenotransplantation-to-save-and-extend-lives"},"modified":"2022-01-30T14:24:14","modified_gmt":"2022-01-30T22:24:14","slug":"dr-david-k-c-cooper-md-phd-mgh-harvard-xenotransplantation-to-save-and-extend-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/dr-david-k-c-cooper-md-phd-mgh-harvard-xenotransplantation-to-save-and-extend-lives","title":{"rendered":"Dr. David K. C. Cooper, MD, PhD. \u2014 MGH\/Harvard \u2014 Xenotransplantation To Save And Extend Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4dXWiX-AKBc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Xenotransplantation To Save And Extend Lives \u2014 Dr. David K.C. Cooper, MD, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Dr. David K. C. Cooper, MA, PhD, MD, MS, DSc (Med), FRCS, FACS, FACC, FAST, (<a href=\"https:\/\/researchers.mgh.harvard.edu\/profile\/27073950\/David-Cooper\">https:\/\/researchers.mgh.harvard.edu\/profile\/27073950\/David-Cooper<\/a>) is a pioneering heart transplant surgeon and researcher in the field of xenotransplantation, which is defined as any procedure that involves the transplantation, implantation or infusion into a human recipient of live cells, tissues, or organs from a nonhuman animal source.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Cooper studied medicine in the UK at Guy\u2019s Hospital Medical School (now part of King\u2019s College London), and trained in general and cardiothoracic surgery in Cambridge and London.<\/p>\n<p>Between 1972 and 1980, Dr. Cooper was a Fellow and Director of Studies in Medical Sciences at Magdalene College, Cambridge. In 1980 he took up an appointment in cardiac surgery at the University of Cape Town where, under Professor Christiaan Barnard, he had responsibility for patients undergoing heart transplantation.<\/p>\n<p>In 1987, Dr. Cooper relocated to the Oklahoma Transplantation Institute in the USA where he continued to work in both the clinical and research fields.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/dr-david-k-c-cooper-md-phd-mgh-harvard-xenotransplantation-to-save-and-extend-lives\">Continue reading \u201cDr. David K. C. Cooper, MD, PhD. \u2014 MGH\/Harvard \u2014 Xenotransplantation To Save And Extend Lives\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xenotransplantation To Save And Extend Lives \u2014 Dr. David K.C. Cooper, MD, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School Dr. David K. C. Cooper, MA, PhD, MD, MS, DSc (Med), FRCS, FACS, FACC, FAST, (https:\/\/researchers.mgh.harvard.edu\/profile\/27073950\/David-Cooper) is a pioneering heart transplant surgeon and researcher in the field of xenotransplantation, which is defined as any procedure that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":400,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/400"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}