--- title: eGenesis: 2024 TIME100 Most Influential Companies description: eGenesis: 2024 TIME100 Most Influential Companies canonical: https://time.com/collections/time100-companies-2024/6979992/egenesis/ article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2024-05-30T11:38:48.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-03-03T00:32:00.273Z article:section: Business og:title: TIME100 Most Influential Companies 2024: eGenesis og:description: Find out why eGenesis is on the list og:url: https://time.com/collections/time100-companies-2024/6979992/egenesis/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2dd8c22a86637a2e/698a572809208f39da41d2e4/time100-companies-egenesis-2024.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME100 Most Influential Companies 2024: eGenesis og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: TIME100 Most Influential Companies 2024: eGenesis twitter:description: Find out why eGenesis is on the list twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2dd8c22a86637a2e/698a572809208f39da41d2e4/time100-companies-egenesis-2024.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- May 30, 2024 # eGenesis by [Alice Park](/author/alice-park/) ## Alice Park Senior Correspondent  Surgeons perform the world’s first genetically modified pig kidney transplant into a living human at Massachusetts General Hospital, in Boston, on March 16, 2024. Surgeons perform the world’s first genetically modified pig kidney transplant into a living human at Massachusetts General Hospital, in Boston, on March 16, 2024.Massachusetts General Hospital/AP Science fiction became reality this year when the first human patient received a pig-kidney transplant from eGenesis, a company that genetically engineers pigs to make their organs less porcine and more human for transplantation. Although the patient died months later from unrelated issues, the transplant could be the start of a new source of organs to address a critical shortage. CEO Mike Curtis plans to ask the U.S. FDA to greenlight the next patient, expand the number of animals it breeds, and work on transplanting other organs, including the liver, this year. Questions still swirl about how long the transplants will last in humans, and how exactly they need to be tweaked, but for now, the pig organs are buying patients precious time and could help many live healthier lives. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-companies-2024/6979992/egenesis/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-companies-2024/6979992/egenesis/"},"headline":"eGenesis","datePublished":"2024-05-30T11:38:48.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-03T00:32:00.273Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/time100-companies-2024/6979992/egenesis/","keywords":["Companies","franchise","Magazine","Special Project","sponsorshipblock","Accolades"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2dd8c22a86637a2e/698a572809208f39da41d2e4/time100-companies-egenesis-2024.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Alice Park","jobTitle":"Senior Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/alice-park/"}],"creator":"Alice Park","articleSection":"Business","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2dd8c22a86637a2e/698a572809208f39da41d2e4/time100-companies-egenesis-2024.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/business/","name":"Business"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/companies/","name":"Companies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-companies-2024/6979992/egenesis/","name":"eGenesis"}}]}] ```