Word: transplanting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...worked my tail off during the campaign and some guy who had worked for Republicans came into my chain of command, I would be anxious," he admits. "And it's as big a surprise for me as it is for them. Some of them think this is a liver transplant and I'm the liver...
...following years, Murray fine-tuned the transplant procedure, examining the various methods of acquisition of organs and the prevention of an immunologic response against the donated organ. In particular, he studied drug and X-ray treatments as methods of modifying the body's response to foreign tissue...
...Murray performed the first kidney transplant on non-identical twins, and over the following 22 years, he conducted successful pancreas, liver, heart, lung and heart-and-lung transplants...
Murray was told that attempting to transplant organs would waste his time and ruin his reputation. But he persevered, driven by his desire to serve. "Any chance of helping was worth working for," he says...
...cites the most significant moments of his career not as the celebrated transplant in 1954 or his being awarded the Nobel Prize, but instead treating children with congenital facial deformities and serving in the U.S. Army...