Kidney transplant pioneer dies

Boston - US surgeon and medical researcher Joseph E Murray, Nobel laureate who performed the first successful kidney transplant, has died aged 93, a hospital in Boston said.

His death was confirmed late Monday by a spokesman for the Brighamand Women's Hospital. No cause of death was immediately given.

Murray was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1990 for his work on transplants, which included the first successful kidney transplant, carried out on identical twins in 1954.

"Kidney transplants seem so routine now," Murray told the New York Times upon winning the prize. "But the first one was like Lindbergh's flight across the ocean." The 23-year-old kidney recipient lived eight more years, married a nurse he met during his hospitalization and had two children.//DPA

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