Joseph Murray
Also known as Joseph Edward Murray
US surgeon (1919–2012)
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Joseph Murray was an American surgeon who pioneered organ transplantation and won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1990 for his work. His breakthroughs in transplant surgery, particularly kidney transplants, fundamentally changed medicine by making it possible to save lives through organ replacement.
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Joseph Edward Murray (April 1, 1919 – November 26, 2012) was an American plastic surgeon who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1990 with E. Donnall Thomas for "their discoveries concerning organ and cell transplantation in the treatment of human disease."
Murray is known as the "father of transplantation" for major milestones in the field of transplantation, including performing the first successful human kidney transplant, defining brain death, organizing the first international conference on human kidney transplants, and founding the National Kidney Registry, the forerunner of the current United Network of Organ Sharing (UNOS).
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1919 births2012 deathsAmerican Nobel laureatesAmerican people of Irish descentAmerican people of Italian descentAmerican surgeonsCollege of the Holy Cross alumniHarvard Medical School alumniLaetare Medal recipientsMembers of the National Academy of MedicineMembers of the Pontifical Academy of SciencesMembers of the United States National Academy of Sciences