Pioneering transplant surgeon Professor Sir Roy Calne dies aged 93
Professor Sir Roy Calne, the pioneering surgeon who led the first liver transplant operation in Europe in 1968, has died at the age of 93, his family said.
He led the operation at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in on May 2 1968 and went on to be the first doctor to use an immunosuppressant in 1978, which was found to be
