accomplished with that grant.
doctors.
[ cheers and applause ]
>> jimmy: thank you, dr. lang.
and thanks to all of you for
your foundation's generous
support.
without you, the work being done
in albuquerque would surely not
be possible.
over the last five years, our
team has had one simple but
ambitious goal -- to cut off a
man's head with a knife --
[ light laughter ]
-- and stick that man's head
onto a pig's body.
[ laughter ]
and for that head to keep
working like normal.
[ laughter ]
first slide.
>> in 2008, as soon as your
check for $18 million cleared,
we began.
[ light laughter ]
we knocked out a man and a pig,
and then tied them down with
belts and sheets.
on the count of three, we sliced
through both of their necks,
shoved the pig's head onto the
floor, put the man's head onto
the pig's body, and sewed it up.
>> jimmy: now, just to be clear,
for the purposes of this
research, we don't care whether
a pig's head could survive on a
man's body.
[ light laughter ]
it'd be great --