Transplant Pioneer Dies in Boston
Dr. Joseph E Murray, who died on Monday, 26th November in Boston, aged 93, opened a new era of medicine with the first successful human organ transplant.
"Murray's groundbreaking surgical feat came in 1954, when he removed a healthy kidney from a 23 year old man and implanted it in the mans' ailing identical twin".
Read the full obituary in the Irish Times, Saturday, December 1st.
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/obituaries/2012/1201/1224327338971.html
