Roy Calne
b 1930, regius professor of surgery, Cambridge
Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, 09/05/95
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Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, 09/05/95 | |
Many experts think that when the Nobel prize was awarded for kidney transplantation Roy Calne should have been among the recipients. His discovery that giving transplant patients a new drug, azathioprine, stopped their grafts being rejected was the main step to the success of kidney grafts and led to successful transplantation of other organs such as the heart and the liver. Calne has lobbied for greater government involvement in organ donor programmes as well as finding the time to become a medical tennis champion for many years and a successful oil painter. |