United Therapeutics, a biotechnology company based in downtown Silver Spring, announced it completed the world’s first successful pig-to-human kidney transplant on April 12. The recipient is 54-year-old Lisa Pisano from Cookstown, N.J. [Source of the Spring]
Potomac Horse Center to close in July
After decades in operation, the Potomac Horse Center (PHC) will close its doors for good on July 22. According to PHC President Nancy Novograd Novograd said the center was closing because of conflict in lease negotiations with the Maryland-National Capital Parks and Planning Commission (M-NCPPC).
“The tipping point in the negotiations was M-NCPPC’s insistence that the renewal of the lease was contingent on PHC raising three to five million dollars to improve M-NCPPC’s infrastructure with no assurances that PHC would be permitted to remain on the property,” Novograd wrote in a letter to PHC customers. [WTOP]
Man posing as a federal agent arrested for gold bar scam in Silver Spring
A man who identified himself to police as a German citizen was arrested for posing as a federal agent and attempting to con a Montgomery County senior citizen into converting roughly $230,000 in life’s savings into gold bars, according to police. Officials say that more than a dozen Montgomery County seniors have been victims of gold bar scams in about a year. [NBC4]
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