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Sergio Canavero

Italian neurosurgeon and author

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Born 1964 · age 62Italy
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    Born 1964
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Updated 2026-07-30

Sergio Canavero is an Italian neurosurgeon known for his controversial claims about the near-term feasibility of head transplantation—the grafting of a head onto a new body—in humans. He made headlines in 2015 when he publicly announced that he would perform such a procedure on a human in two years' time. In 2017, Canavero and colleagues performed a rehearsal head transplantation procedure on two cadavers, and he announced his intention to "imminently" perform the operation on a live human patient paralyzed from the neck down.

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