Prof Sir Roy Calne performed gamechanging operation in 1968, and was responsible for other surgical ‘world firsts’
Prof Sir Roy Calne, the pioneering surgeon who led a team which performed the first liver transplant in Europe, has died at the age of 93.
On 2 May 1968 Calne performed the gamechanging operation at Addenbrooke’s hospital in Cambridge, a year after the US’s first successful liver transplant.
