Transplant doc, Nobel winner Murray dies in Boston

DR Joseph E Murray, who performed the world's first successful kidney transplant and won a Nobel Prize for his pioneering work, has died at the age of 93.

Murray's death in Boston was confirmed on Monday by Brigham and Women's Hospital spokesman Tom Langford. No cause of death was immediately announced.

Since the first kidney transplants on identical twins, hundreds of thousands of transplants on a variety of organs have been performed worldwide. Murray shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1990 with Dr E Donnall Thomas, who won for his work in bone marrow transplants. Read more:

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