“…His own interest in xenotransplantation continued, and at the inaugural meeting of the Xenotransplantation Society in October 1999, he described the theoretical advantage of transplanting ''.non-human islet cells [which] might not be attacked by auto-immune processes.'' 6 It probably gave him some satisfaction to have learned that, 1 month before his death, a team from Canada successfully performed such a transplant.…”