Le Dr Joseph E. Murray (1919-2012), médecin américain et lauréat du Prix Nobel de médecine 1990 pour ses travaux sur la transplantation d'organes. Le Dr Murray a effectué la première greffe d'un organe humain réussi, d'un rein transplanté entre deux jumeaux identiques en 1954 au Brigham and Women's Hospital de Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
3428 x 5000 px | 29 x 42,3 cm | 11,4 x 16,7 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
8 octobre 1990
Lieu:
San Francisco, California, USA
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Dr. Joseph E. Murray (1919-2012), American physician and recipient of the 1990 Nobel Prize for medicine, performed the first successful human organ transplant of a kidney between two identical twins at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts in 1954. Dr. Murray died in 2012 at the same hospital at the age of 92 and was considered to be one of the preeminent surgeons of the 20th century. Dr. Murray was doing his surgical residency in Boston when he joined the Army at the start of World War II and was assigned to a plastic and reconstructive hospital in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. His experience with skin grafting and reconstructive surgery lead him to wonder if it would be feasible to go beyond skin and if it would someday be possible to remove a healthy internal organ from a recently deceased person and transplant it into a person who would otherwise die. After the war, Dr. Murray returned to Boston, resuming his residency at Brigham and opened a private practice in plastic surgery. He went on to perform successful kidney transplants and pioneered the development of immunosuppressive drugs. Dr. Murray shared his 1990 Noble prize with another American, Dr. Donnal Thomas. Dr. Murray donated his share of the Nobel Prize, $703, 000.00 to the Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Boston Children’s Hospital.
