He gave an interview to OOOM magazine. Sergio is together with various teams in the US, China and South Korea, the author of more than 140 scientific publications continued to pursue the plan he called HEAVEN (Head Anastomosis Venture). In his GEMINI protocol, Canavero outlines every necessary step of the procedure in detail, laid out like in an instruction manual.

* The world's first human head transplant will be performed within the next ten months.

* The procedure will be performed in China.

* Experienced surgeon Xiaoping Ren of Harbin Medical University, a close friend of Canavero, will lead the surgical team performing the head transplant. He previously was part of the surgery team in the first hand transplantation in the US.

* The first head transplant patient will not be Russian Valery Spiridonov but a Chinese citizen.

*There are already potential candidates for the operation.

* Meanwhile, Prof. Canavero is already planning his next coup: the world's first brain transplant, slated to take place in three years at the latest. He has already started to assemble a team for the procedure.