Liver Transplantation: From Inception to Clinical Practice
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The 2012 Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award will be conferred on Thomas Starzl of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA and Roy Calne of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, UK. They are recognized for pioneering the development of liver transplantation, an intervention that saves 20,000 lives world-wide each year.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Cell
دوره 150 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2012