Dr. Peter Stock Instrumental in Passage of Bill Lifting Research Ban on HIV Organ Transplants
UCSF Transplant Surgery - December 05, 2013
President Barack Obama signs S. 330: HIV Organ Policy Equity Act during a signing ceremony in the Oval Office, Nov. 21, 2013. (Official White House Photo by Lawrence Jackson)
MSNBC reports on President Obama's signing of a bill that ended a decades-old policy that banned organ donations from one HIV-positive person to another. A clinical trial led by UCSF transplant surgeon Peter G. Stock, M.D., Ph.D. was instrumental to the passage of the Hope Act that lifted the ban.
The HIV Organ Policy Equity (HOPE) Act allows organ transplants between HIV-infected individuals for medical research [...]