First Successful Human-to-Human Kidney Transplant

The first successful human-to-human organ transplant was a kidney transplant performed on December 23, 1954, by Dr. Joseph Murray and his team at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, involving identical twins Richard and Ronald Herrick.

Sources

• en.wikipedia.org
• First successful kidney transplant | Guinness World Records
• medcure.org
• The history of organ donation and transplantation - UNOS
• news.harvard.edu
• transplant.uthscsa.edu

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