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Joseph Murray
US surgeon (1919-2012) · United States · Doctors · Died at 93
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Something wrong?He turned organ transplantation from theory into reality, performing the first successful human kidney transplant and later defining brain death - work that redrew the border between salvageable and lost.
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Joseph Edward Murray was born April 1, 1919, and trained as a plastic surgeon before the problem of rejected organs pulled him toward transplantation. He performed the first successful human kidney transplant, a procedure that had eluded medicine until his hands proved it possible. The breakthrough earned him the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1990, shared with E. Donnall Thomas, for discoveries in organ and cell transplantation. Beyond the operating room, he organized the first international conference on human kidney transplants and founded the National Kidney Registry, which evolved into the United Network of Organ Sharing. He died November 26, 2012, decades after the work that made thousands of other lives possible.
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