Dhaniram Baruah is an Indian heart surgeon from Assam, known for his work in the field of xenotransplantation.
[2] Although the recipient died subsequently, it was a precursor to the first successful pig-to-human heart transplant performed 25 years later by Bartley P. Griffith in January 2022.
[4] Barua is also the founder of Dr Dhaniram Baruah Heart Institute & Research Centre.
But undeterred he continued his experiments, and claimed that successful transplantation of a pig heart in a human body was feasible.
[12] He has written a two-volume book titled "AIDS Reaching the Unreachable with Baruah Combat Genes".