{"id":293676,"date":"2026-02-12T05:54:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T05:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/293676\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T05:54:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T05:54:06","slug":"time100-health-nima-nassiri-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/293676\/","title":{"rendered":"TIME100 Health: Nima Nassiri | TIME"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rich-text mb-6 self-baseline font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\" data-testid=\"paragraph-content\">It was literally a back-of-the-envelope idea. Dr. Nima Nassiri had pulled out an envelope to scribble notes on how a bladder transplant could be accomplished in a living person\u2014a surgery that had yet to be performed successfully.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rich-text mb-6 self-baseline font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\" data-testid=\"paragraph-content\">It was 2021, the <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/7266503\/covid-19-pandemic-5-years\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">COVID pandemic<\/a> was raging, and Nassiri, then a medical resident, was brainstorming ideas with urologist Dr. Inderbir Gill in a school cafeteria. <\/p>\n<p class=\"rich-text self-baseline font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mb-0 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\" data-testid=\"paragraph-content\">About four years later, on May 4, 2025, Nassiri\u2014now 37 and an assistant clinical professor of urology at the University of California, Los Angeles\u2014and Gill performed a bladder transplant on a 41-year-old father of four. The procedure, a world first, was a tremendous success. The patient recovered well and has excellent bladder function, Nassiri says.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was literally a back-of-the-envelope idea. Dr. Nima Nassiri had pulled out an envelope to scribble notes on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[47092,9810,103,397,396,61,60,28976,709,47094,12277,139977],"class_list":{"0":"post-293676","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-accolades","9":"tag-franchise","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-health-care","12":"tag-healthcare","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-list","16":"tag-magazine","17":"tag-special-project","18":"tag-sponsorshipblock","19":"tag-time100-health-2026"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}