About five years ago, Shawn Wiederhoeft received a life-changing kidney transplant, and in the process, might have helped change the lives of future transplant recipients.
The Madisonian was one of 30 kidney transplant recipients in a recent trial hoping to persuade their body to not reject it’s new organ.
The research, led by a University of Wisconsin-Madison scientist, used stem cells from a patient’s donor to adjust the immune system such that it accepted the new kidney.