by Stephen A. Ash | Jan 26, 2022 | Pioneer Editorials
Abstract In the course of over four decades, I have worked with an R&D team on 12 major R&D projects, all with the goal of making hemodialysis simple, safe, effective, and suitable for use in the home. Our team has worked within a University and in private...
by Steven Phillips & Kenneth Thornton | Dec 16, 2021 | Pioneer Editorials
Originally published in Volume 45 Issue 11 of Artificial Organs, 30 May 2021 Author Tom Clancy popularized the term magnetohydrodynamics in his 1984 techno-thriller novel, The Hunt for Red October.1-3 The Red October is a Soviet Typhoon Class stealth nuclear...
by Center Admin | Oct 20, 2021 | News
Welcome! On behalf of the Board of Trustees for the International Center for Artificial Organs and Transplantation (ICAOT), we are pleased to launch this web site with a focus on the history, development, and clinical applications in the fields of artificial organ...
by Hikaru Matsuda | Sep 8, 2021 | Pioneer Editorials
Originally published in Volume 44 Issue 6 of Artificial Organs, 29 April 2020 1 OVERVIEW The first heart transplantation (HTx) in Japan was carried out in Sapporo by Dr. J. Wada 8 months after Dr. C. Barnard performed the world’s first case in Cape Town, South Africa...
by Jae Hwan Choi & Vakhtang Tchantchaleishvilli | Sep 7, 2021 | Pioneer Editorials
Originally published in Volume 43 Issue 10 of Artificial Organs, 27 June 2019 The invention of the heart-lung machine by Dr. John H. Gibbon Jr., through its long development cycle at Jefferson Medical College (now Thomas Jefferson University) from its conception in...
