Surgeon who carried out Europe’s first liver transplant dies aged 93

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.