Construction begins on Mayo Clinic's lung restoration center

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Construction has begun for the new lung restoration center on the Mayo Clinic's Jacksonville campus.

Around 120 people attended a Mayo Clinic event on Tuesday to celebrate the new lung restoration center.

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Among the attendees were doctors, CEOs, and even transplant recipients.

One grandmother told News4Jax that a transplant saved her life.

"I may not still be here if it wouldn't have been for that,” Annie Moses said.

Moses said she has seven grandsons and one granddaughter, and she is excited to be able to watch them play sports and grow. She said that it is a grandmother's prayer come true.

Mayo Clinic's CEO and the Chairman of United Therapeutics Corporation talked during the event Tuesday about construction of the three-story lung restoration center on the Florida campus.

The clinic is partnering with United Therapeutics to develop technology that can sustain and rejuvenate lungs, making previously marginal lungs suitable for transplantation.

The process could double or triple the lungs available for transplant.

The lung restoration center is scheduled to open in 2017.