66th Anniversary of the First Successful Long-Term Kidney Transplant!

Today marks the 66th Anniversary of the first successful long-term kidney transplant! Click here to read the full story.

On Dec. 23, 1954, the first successful human kidney transplant took place at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston as a surgical team removed a kidney from 23-year-old Ronald Herrick and implanted it in Herrick’s twin brother, Richard.”