Surgeon Dr. Paolo Macchiarini press conference, Stockholm, Sweden - 21 Jun 2023
Italian surgeon Dr. Paolo Macchiarini during a pressconference in Stockholm, Sweden on Wednesday, June 21, 2023. A Swedish appeals court has upped a prison sentence for the Italian surgeon Dr. Paolo Macchiarini for causing bodily harm during experimental stem cell windpipe transplants on three patients who eventually died. Macchiarini was given two-and-a-half years in jail by Sweden's Svea Court of Appeal for causing "bodily harm" of the three people between 2011 and 2014.