(17.11.2017) In a phone interview with USA TODAY, Canavero decried the unwillingness of the U.S. or Europe to host the surgery. „No American medical institute or center would pursue this, and there is no will by the U.S. government to support it,“ he said.

Canavero would not divulge the identity of the Chinese donor or recipient. The donor will be the healthy body of a brain-dead patient matched for build with a recipient‘s disease-free head.