1954 - Joseph E. Murray and his colleagues at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston performed the first truly successful kidney transplant, from one twin to another. This was done without any immunosuppressive medication.
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/HPS/transplant/html/history.html
Actually on April 3, 1933, Yu Yu Voronoy (Yuri Voronoy) of Soviet Union performed the first human allograft kidney transplantation.
It is very hard to find a kidney transplant. In some countries it can take several years before you can get a transplant.
The first successful kidney transplant was performed to the Herrick twins in 1954.
The reason Cristiaan Barnard is famous is because he was the first person to perform a heart transplant.
Canada's first successful kidney transplant between identical twins was in 1958.
Joseph Murray performed the first successful transplant, a kidney transplant between identical twins, in 1954, successful because no immunosuppression was necessary in genetically identical twins.
394 AD
when and where the first kidney transplant performed in INDIA
The first successful kidney transplant between identical twins.
That was a heart transplant.
1876 in London
1954 first successful kidney transplant
The first successful transplant in 1950 was a kidney. The transplant was done at Little Company of Mary Hospital on June 17, 1950.