On this day, 26 years ago, January 11, 1999 (November 24, 1998 in the lunar calendar), the first patient received a skin transplant made of living human cells and bovine collagen. On January 11, 1999, Tory Cameron, who was only eight weeks old, underwent a skin transplant at Jackson Children's Hospital in Miami, USA, becoming the first patient in the United States to receive a skin transplant synthetic from living human cells and bovine collagen. Cameron was born with epidermolysis macrobulous, with blisters appearing on 70% of his body.