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Joseph Murray
Joseph Edward Murray 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."
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science · American plastic surgeon (1919–2012) · physician · surgeon · university teacher · also Joseph Murray, Joseph E. Murray, Joseph Edward Murray, Murray
Born 1 April 1919 · Died 26 November 2012 · Q192282
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2020· 1 entry
Published “Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019” in The Lancet — cited 16,054 times.
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2015· 1 entry
Published “A global reference for human genetic variation” in Nature — cited 17,839 times.
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2012· 2 entries
At Brigham and Women's Hospital, the same hospital where he performed the first organ transplant operation
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Died 2012-11-26.
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2005· 1 entry
Won Laetare Medal (2005).
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2001· 1 entry
Murray published his autobiography, Surgery Of The Soul: Reflections on a Curious Career, with stories about how surgery treats the souls of the patient and the surgeon, as well as the disease
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1996· 1 entry
Was appointed Academician of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences in the Vatican
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1991· 1 entry
Murray received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement
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1990· 3 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for their discoveries concerning organ and cell transplantation in the treatment of human disease.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1990).
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Was honored with the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his pioneering work in organ transplantation, together with hematologist E
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1986· 2 entries
Awarded honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (1986).
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From Harvard Medical School after recovering from a small stroke
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1971· 1 entry
To focus on paediatric reconstructive surgery, becoming the chief of plastic surgery from 1972 to 1985 at the Boston Children's Hospital Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts
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1967· 1 entry
Participated in defining brain death, when Robert Ebert, the Dean of the Harvard Medical School convened a group of physicians, ethicists, and legal scholars to examine the characteristics of a permanently nonfunction
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1962· 2 entries
Murray performed the first successful deceased donor (cadaveric) kidney transplant treated with Imuran, a derivate of 6-MP and steroids
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Murray led the organization of the first international conference on human kidney transplants in 1962, followed by the founding of the National Kidney Registry, the forerunner of the current United Network for Organ Shar
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1961· 1 entry
Awarded Amory Prize (1961).
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1960· 1 entry
Murray had to get the approval of the Massachusetts Superior Court before being able to transplant a kidney for a family who travelled from Red Deer, Alberta, Canada to see Murray from 12-year-old Lana Nightingale into
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1959· 1 entry
Murray went on to perform the world's first successful allograft, who received a kidney from his non-identical brother, after being treated with total body irradiation and continued to live for another 28 years
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1954· 1 entry
Murray performed the world's first successful renal transplant between the identical Herrick twins at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital (later Brigham and Women's Hospital), an operation that lasted five and a half hours
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1943· 1 entry
Murray began his internship at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital
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1919· 1 entry
Born 1919-04-01.
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