biography
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Murray, Joseph E(dward)
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1919– )
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| biography:
| Surgeon, born in Milford, Massachusetts, USA. Trained as a plastic surgeon, he joined Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston (now Brigham and Women's Hospital) (1951–86), became interested in treatments for kidney failure, and performed the first human kidney transplant between identical twins in 1954. After investigating the effects of immunosuppressant drugs, he performed the first human kidney transplant from an unrelated donor in 1962. He became professor of surgery at Harvard (1970), returning to plastic surgery at the Children's Hospital Medical Center, Boston (1972–85). He shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1990. |
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