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Sergio Canavero (born 1964) is an Italian neurosurgeon known for his controversial claims about the near-term feasibility of head transplantation—the grafting of a head onto a new body—in humans. He made headlines in 2015 when he publicly announced that he would perform such a procedure on a human in two years' time. [ 1 ]
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Scientists have successfully created a two-headed rat — and humans might be next. A team of Chinese researchers wrote a paper about the surgery together with Italian neurosurgeon Sergio Canavero.
In 2013, Sergio Canavero published a protocol that he said would make human head transplantation possible. [5] [6] In 2016, he announced his plans to do the procedure on Valeriy Spiridonov, a disabled Russian software engineer suffering from spinal muscular atrophy, who volunteered for the surgery.
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In November 2017, Sergio Canavero claimed that a team led by Ren had performed the first successful human head transplant. [8] This procedure did not involve Spiridonov. To date, no evidence has been presented of a successful procedure.
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A devout Roman Catholic, Dr. White was a member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. He attended mass regularly and prayed before performing surgeries. [2] Throughout his career, White performed over 10,000 surgical operations and authored more than 900 publications on clinical neurosurgery, medical ethics and health care. [2]