Word: kidney
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Martin Nash, director of Babies' Pediatric Kidney Disease Program, recalls, "Most of us thought it was a wonderful idea, but we were not sure how it would work and if it would be accepted by the parents of sick children. But Michael's and the other clowns' techniques were so disarming, they captivated everybody immediately." Indeed, Nash confides, hospital personnel thoroughly enjoy the shows of Dr. Stubs and his colleagues...
...radiation technique had potentially fatalside effects, however, and it was not until 1962,when a drug called azathioprine was discovered tosuppress the immune system and allow the body toreceive a foreign organ, that Murray was able tosuccessfully transplant the kidney of an unrelatedcadaver...
...delighted [by Murray's award] for manyreasons," said Med School Dean Daniel C. Tosteson'44. "First, it celebrates a magnificent discoveryof a way to benefit millions of people throughoutthe world suffering from kidney failure. Second,it celebrates a kind of research that is ofenormous importance for the future of medicine.Third, and in many ways most important, is the[fine] character of the recipient...
When Murray returned to Harvard to finish his residency after the war, hewanted to do research in the field of skintransplants. But the major work done at BrighamHospital in Boston was in kidney transplantation.In the late 1940s, the hospital was the first inthe country to host a demonstration of theartificial kidney machine developed during thewar...
...result, Murray switched his area ofresearch from skin transplants to kidneytransplants, and over the next 20 years, paved theway for the transplantation of all solid organs,such as the kidney, liver, heart, pancreas, lungand intestines...