Reply: Xenogeneic cross-circulation of ex vivo human livers or liver xenotransplantation?

1Department of Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center; Nashville, TN, USA 2Transplant Center, University of California Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA 3Department of Cardiac Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center; Nashville, TN, USA 4Department of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University; Nashville, TN, USA Letter to the editor Financial Support: Burroughs Wellcome Fund Physician-Scientist Institutional Award to Vanderbilt University ID: 1018894 (WKW). H. William Scott, Jr Chair in Surgery Foundation (MB). National Institutes of Health grant HL140231 (MB). Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs PR212237 (MB) Correspondence Matthew Bacchetta, MD, MBA, FACS, FAIMBE, Professor, Department of Cardiac Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Medical Center East, 1215 21st Avenue South, Suite 5025, Nashville, Tennessee 37232, USA. Email: [email protected]