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Roy Yorke Calne

British scientist

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born: 1930
died: 2024
age at death: 93
known for: transplant surgeon, university teacher, professor of surgery

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Sir Roy Yorke Calne was a British surgeon and pioneer in organ transplantation. He was part of the team that performed the first liver transplantation operation in Europe in 1968, the world's first liver, heart and lung transplantation in 1987, the first intestinal transplant in the UK in 1992 and the first successful combined stomach, intestine, pancreas, liver and kidney cluster transplantation in 1994.

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