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The first successful kidney transplant was performed in 1954 by a team including Joseph Murray, the recipient's surgeon, and Hartwell Harrison, surgeon for the donor. Murray was awarded a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1990 for this and other work. [ 1 ]
Joseph Edward Murray (April 1, 1919 – November 26, 2012) was an American plastic surgeon who is known as the "father of transplantation" for major milestones in the field of transplantation, including performing the first successful human kidney transplant, [1] [2] defining brain death, the organization of the first international conference on human kidney transplants and founding of the ...
David Milford Hume (21 October 1917, Muskegon, Michigan, United States - 19 May 1973), was an American medical doctor and pioneer in kidney disease research and treatment. [1] He was part of the team that performed the first successful kidney transplant. [2] Hume also published a landmark paper on renal transplantation.
Mass General Brigham transplant milestones include the world’s first successful human organ transplant (a kidney) performed at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in 1954 and the nation’s first ...
Samuel Lee Kountz Jr. (October 30, 1930 – December 23, 1981) was an African-American kidney transplantation surgeon from Lexa, Arkansas.He was most distinguished for his pioneering work in the field of kidney transplantations, and in research, discoveries, and inventions in Renal Science.
Richard H. Lawler, M.D. (August 12, 1895 — July 24, 1982) led a surgical team at Little Company of Mary Hospital in Evergreen Park, Illinois, that performed on June 17, 1950, what Time magazine described as "the first human kidney transplant on record."
In Wisconsin, the UW Health Kidney Transplant Program completed its first adult kidney transplant in 1966 while Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin performed its first in 1967.
The first successful pig kidney transplant in a living recipient — a milestone in the field of so-called xenotransplantation, ... Dr. Tatsuo Kawai, the surgeon who performed the operation, said ...