LONDON — Roy Calne, a pioneer of organ transplantation who led Europe’s first liver transplant operation in 1968, has died aged 93. In 1960, Calne’s dog experiments demonstrated for the first time that a drug could fend off organ rejection. In May 1968, Calne led a transplant operation on a 46-year-old woman with liver cancer, at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge. …
A 14-year-old class 10 student from Surat, Dharmik Ajaybhai Kakadiya became the first person in Gujarat whose organs were donated by his family when he himself was on a waiting list for a kidney transplant at the State Organ and Tissue Transplant Organisation. For the first time in the country, a multiple organ donation such as heart, lungs, liver, corneas, …
