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Detailed explanation-1: -Thomas Starzl was a leading researcher on anti-rejection drugs.

Detailed explanation-2: -In 1967, Starzl performed the first successful liver transplant with a patient surviving more than a year. Starzl spent much of his research career working on anti-rejection medications that would markedly increase transplant survival rates.

Detailed explanation-3: -This was followed by a few unsuccessful attempts until the first successful DDLT in 1998 and shortly thereafter by the first successful Living donor liver transplant (LDLT) in November 1998 both performed by Rajashekar (1).

Detailed explanation-4: -Believing this indicated that diabetes was related to the liver, not the pancreas, he undertook experiments with dogs to prove his theory. Those experiments failed-but set him on the way to performing the first successful human liver transplant in 1967, at the University of Colorado in Denver.