title: Liver transplantation: from inception to clinical practice.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Departments of Genetics and Internal Medicine, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510, USA.
authors.forename: Silvia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Vilarinho
authors.forename: Richard P
authors.initials: RP
authors.lastname: Lifton
mesh_terms: D001363:Awards and Prizes; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D007166:Immunosuppressive Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D008099:Liver / Q000502:physiology; D017093:Liver Failure / Q000628:therapy; D016031:Liver Transplantation / Q000266:history* / Q000276:immunology; D009927:Tissue and Organ Procurement; D006113:United Kingdom; D014481:United States
chemical_list: D007166:Immunosuppressive Agents