What made worldwide headlines 56 years ago as a medical sensation is now an almost everyday, routine procedure for doctors specializing in this field: implanting 'new' organs such as the heart, lungs, liver or kidneys into sick people.

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Prof. Dr. Raimund Magreiter was a pioneer in transplantation medicine in Austria, performing the first successful kidney transplant in 1974, a liver transplant in 1977 and a pancreas transplant two years later. In 1982, the world's first combined liver and bone marrow transplant was performed, in 1983 the first heart transplant in Austria, and shortly afterwards the world's first combined liver and kidney transplant.

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From 1985 to 1997, Prof. Dr. Margreiter and his team performed many transplants, many of which were the first of their kind in the world. He set the course for all Austrian TransplantCenters, currently Vienna, Linz, Graz and Innsbruck, which do outstanding work every day, passing on knowledge to colleagues at national and international levels.