Joseph E. Murray was an American surgeon , winner of the Nobel in 1990 thanks to his "discoveries concerning organ and cell transplantation in the treatment of human disease". He was born in Milford in 1919 and he studied at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester.
Finishing college, Murray enrolled at Harvard Medical School in Boston and later he joined the army starting to think of surgery. Murray went down in history for being the first man to run a successful kidney transplant between twins: Herrick twins at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital Pickle. Richard Herrick who received the kidney from his brother Ronald lived for another eight years. His research and his success in this field of medicine continued: in 1959 he performed the first allograft , and in 1962 the first kidney transplant taken from a corpse. Later he became a specialist in the biology of transplantation and thanks to the discovery of medical substances such as azathioprine to prevent rejection Murray was able to successfully complete the first transplants between people without kinship. He died in Boston at Brigham and Women 's Hospital in 2012.
Finishing college, Murray enrolled at Harvard Medical School in Boston and later he joined the army starting to think of surgery. Murray went down in history for being the first man to run a successful kidney transplant between twins: Herrick twins at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital Pickle. Richard Herrick who received the kidney from his brother Ronald lived for another eight years. His research and his success in this field of medicine continued: in 1959 he performed the first allograft , and in 1962 the first kidney transplant taken from a corpse. Later he became a specialist in the biology of transplantation and thanks to the discovery of medical substances such as azathioprine to prevent rejection Murray was able to successfully complete the first transplants between people without kinship. He died in Boston at Brigham and Women 's Hospital in 2012.