Never too far away from make headlines , the controversial brain surgeon Sergio Canavero is back with claim that the earthly concern ’s first school principal graft is “ impendent ” , after Chinese scientist successfully carried out the first chief transplantation on a human corpse .

He unwrap the news show at a insistency conference in Vienna on Friday morning , The Telegraphreports . Professor Canavero claims the exploit was carried out during an 18 - hour operation at Harbin Medical University in China , during which a team of surgeons successfully severed then reconnected the spinal cord , cheek , and bloodline vessels in the spine and neck opening .

The operation was led by Dr Xiaoping Ren , a sawbones who has antecedently transplant the head ofa monkeyandnumerous gnawer . Harbin Medical University is expect to indite a full write up on the functioning within the next few days .

“ The first human transplant on human cadavers has been done , " Canavero told the crowd , harmonise to the Telegraph . " A full head barter between brain - dead Hammond organ donors is the next microscope stage . Andthat is the last stair for the formal head transplant for a aesculapian condition which is imminent . ”

In a telephone set audience today , Canavero toldUSA Todaythat the mental process will take place in China because the scientific validation and authorities of Europe and the US were unwilling to corroborate the contentious operating room .

" The Americans did not understand , ” he say . " Formosan President Xi Jinping want to reinstate China to sizeableness . He want to make it the lonesome superpower in the world . I trust he is doing it . ”

The nonconcentric Italian ’s plans to pull off the first springy human top dog transplant have been fence in and fuel with disputation . Back in 2015 , he estimated that the operation would bedone and dusted by 2017 , however that ’s face unlikely deliberate the late rate of developments .

Even though Canavero has spent the past few yearwriting scientific studieson the effort , massive dubiousness are continuing to be cast onto the scientific legitimacy of his big promises . Arthur Caplan , heading of medical ethics at Langone Medical Center of New York University , saidCanaverowas “ out of his psyche ” .

Speaking toWiredin May of this year about forefront graft surgery , neuroscientist Dean Burnett state : “ When someone make an uttermost title , my prescript of quarter round is this : If they have n’t offer full-bodied scientific grounds , but they have done a TED talk , alarum bells should be ringing . ”

Canavero ’s TEDx Talk can be viewed below .