The first person to perform kidney transplantation in the world died

Doctor - surgeon Joseph Murray, who successfully performed the world's first kidney transplant, died at the age of 93 at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital (Boston, USA).

Also in this hospital, in December 1954, Dr. Murray went into history when he successfully performed kidney transplants for the twin brothers Richard and Ronald Herrick.

Doctor - surgeon Joseph Murray

By applying new surgical techniques, he took a healthy kidney from a 23-year-old Ronald who implanted him with Richard who was about to die of kidney disease. After the surgery, Richard survived another 8 years, while Ronald lived for 57 years and died last year at the age of 80.

Murray said he studied the technique of organ transplants during World War II, when treating soldiers with severe burns. Through skin graft surgery for soldiers, he realized the biggest obstacle in organ transplantation is the elimination of the immune system to foreign tissues.

He and his colleagues at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital sought to minimize this elimination by testing organ transplants on dogs and succeeded.

In 1962, with the introduction of anti-rejection agents, he successfully performed the first organ transplant from a non-cousin.

His success paved the way for hundreds of thousands of organ transplants around the world and brought him the 1990 Nobel Prize in medicine. Sharing this prestigious award was Dr. E. Donnall Thomas, who was honored by the effort in bone marrow transplant.

The spokeswoman of the Women's & Brigham Hospital (formerly Peter Bent Brigham Hospital) told the BBC that Mr. Murray had a stroke last November 22 at his home in suburban Boston, then was transferred to the hospital and vented last breath on November 26 (local time).