Medicine · Recorded milestone
Organ transplant
Recorded year1954
Joseph Murray performs the first successful kidney transplant, between twins.
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Led to
- Heart transplantRecorded · 1967enables
- Anti-rejection drug ciclosporinRecorded · 1983enables
- Uterus-transplant birthRecorded · 2014enables
- Pig kidney as a bridge to transplantRecorded · 2025enables
- Stem-cell-derived cell therapyRecorded · 2025enables
- Stem-cell islets for type 1 diabetesForecast · ~2028enables
- Pig-organ transplantsForecast · ~2032enables
- Revived frozen organsForecast · ~2045enables
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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.