Sir Roy Calne#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 1309 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 1993 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Sir Roy Calne passed away January 6, 2024.
Positions Held
- 1998 - 1999 Yeoh Ghim Professor of Surgery, National University of Singapore and Consultant to Novartis
- 1998 Professor of Surgery Emeritus, Cambridge University
- 1965 - 1998 Professor of Surgery, University of Cambridge and Fellow of Trinity Hall General Surgeon with special interest in organ transplantation
- 1961 - 1965 Lecturer in Surgery at St. Mary's and Senior Lecturer at Westminster Hospital
- 1960 - 1961 Harkness Fellow at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital at Harvard Medical School in Boston.
Fields of Scholarship
- Organ transplantation
- Surgical science
Honours and Awards
- 1986 Knighted in the 1986 Birthday Honours
- 1984 Lister Medal
- 1988 Cameron Prize for Therapeutics of the University of Edinburgh
- 1990 Ellison-Cliffe Medal from the Royal Society of Medicine
- 2012 Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award (together with Thomas Starzl) "for the development of liver transplantation, which has restored normal life to thousands of patients with end-stage liver disease"
- 1974 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society
- 1992 - 1994 President of the International Transplantation Society
