Organ Donation Project By JJW2023 1838 Remarkably, in 1838 the first corneal xenotransplantation (from a pig) was performed in a patient 1869 The first verifiably documented skin transplant occurred in 1869 1900 blood types discovered and the idea of organ transplant was made Period: 1900 to Mar 11, 2022 dates of organ transplant improvements 1954 First organ transplanted (kidney) from identical twins 1956 in 1956, the first successful bone marrow transplant took place. 1960 Liver, heart and pancreas transplants were successfully performed by the late 1960s 1963 in June 11, 1963, James Hardy performed the first human lung transplant 1967 The first formally published case was performed by Lillehei17 in Minneapolis in 1967. 1995 First living donor kidney removed by laparoscopic surgery 2014 the heart in a box concept has expanded the time that a heart can be outside of a body from 4 hours to 14 hours. 2014 The first DCD heart transplant was performed in 2014, using the heart in the box concept. 2018 in 2018, The first OCS Lung transplant was made Mar 11, 2022 an advanced system in which transportation time can be increased by making the donor organs into thinking that they are still inside the body