Professor Sir Roy Calne, the pioneering surgeon based at Addenbrooke’s Hospital when he led the first liver transplant operation in Europe in 1968, has died at the age of 93, his family has said. Sir Roy is considered one of the fathers of organ transplantation. He performed a series of surgical “world firsts” and his work on liver transplants offered thousands of people with end-stage liver disease a normal life, The Royal Society said. He had gone on to become the first doctor to use an immunosuppressant – hugely effective in reducing organ rejection – in 1978. His family said the professor …