Joseph E. Murray

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1990
Nobel co-recipient: E. Donnall Thomas

"for their discoveries concerning organ and cell transplantation in the treatment of human disease."

Nobel Prize Cash & Philanthropy

Joseph Murray donated the Nobel Prize money to institutions in which he had worked - Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Children's Hospital. He believed greatly in basic science research and hoped that someday stem cell research would lead to organs being created.