YEAR

HIGHLIGHTS

1822

First autologous skin graft – transplanting an individual’s own skin from one site on the body to another
 

1906

First corneal transplant
Dr. Edward Zirm

1946

First successful deceased donor transplant in US

1954

First living related kidney transplant
Dr. Joseph Murray
Dr. Hartwell Harrison
 

1963

First lung transplant
Dr. James Hardy
First liver transplant
Dr. Thomas Starzl

1967

First heart transplant
Dr. Christian Bernaard, South Africa
 

1968

First U.S. heart transplant
Dr. Norman Shumway

First pancreas transplant
Dr. Richard Lillche
Dr. William Kelly

First living related bone marrow transplant
Dr. Robert Good
 

1979

First unrelated bone marrow transplant
 

1981

First heart/lung transplant
Dr. Norman Shumway

First successful heart/lung transplant Reitz
 

1983

The FDA approved Cyclosporin which became an important immunosuppressant

First successful single ling transplant Joel Cooper
 

1984

First heart/liver transplant
Dr. Tomas Starzl
 

1986

First successful double lung transplant
 

1987

First successful intestine transplant
 

1988

First split liver transplant

FDA approves Viaspan

1989

First combination heart, liver and kidney transplant
Dr. Armithee
Dr. Ronald Shapiro
Dr. Satoru Todo

First successful living donor liver transplant
 

1990

Surgeons Dr. Joseph E. Murray, who performed the first successful kidney transplant, and Dr. E. Donnall Thomas, who pioneered bone marrow transplants as a cure for leukemia, received the Nobel Prize
 

1998

First hand transplant