Drivers passing through town will soon recognize Milford as the home of Nobel Prize winning doctor Joseph Murray.
The Historical Commission is working to replace welcome signs for cars entering town on the side of Rte. 16 and on Rte. 140 near Milford Regional Medical Center.
Dr. Murray’s Milford High School Class of 1936 had placed signs at the two locations in 1997, but they went missing a couple of years later.
The new signs will state that Milford is the birthplace of the groundbreaking Dr. Murray who completed the world’s first kidney transplant in 1954 at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. The transplant was performed after an identical twin volunteered to have one of his kidney’s removed for his brother.
Dr. Murray, who was born in Milford in 1919, won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1990 for the achievement.
His nephew Brian Murray, who is a member of the Board of Selectmen, said that the transplant “laid the foundation for all the subsequent work that you’ve seen over the years.”
“Now organ transplants are such a common thing,” he said.
Read more
{Register to be an organ,eye and tissue donor. To learn how, www.donatelife.net or www.organdonor.gov}
No comments:
Post a Comment