Italian doctor Sergio Canavero, along with his Chinese colleague Ren Xiaoping, is set to conduct the world’s first head transplant on a 30-year-old Russian patient suffering from a rare disease. The operation is planned for December 2017.
The project was first announced in 2013, and the man who volunteered for the procedure is Russian Valery Spiridonov, who suffers from the extremely rare, progressive Werdnig-Hoffmann disease.
“Canavero initially joked it would be a Christmas present, but now this is becoming a reality.
Most importantly, it will happen after the results of our tests and additional experiments being confirmed,” Spiridonov told RT.