Raymond Leonard Powles (born 9 March 1938) is a British physician. His

identical twin Twins are two offspring produced by the same pregnancy.MedicineNet > Definition of Twin Last Editorial Review: 19 June 2000 Twins can be either ''monozygotic'' ('identical'), meaning that they develop from one zygote, which splits and forms two ...

Trevor Powles Trevor ( Trefor in the Welsh language) is a common given name or surname of Welsh origin. It is an habitational name, deriving from the Welsh ''tre(f)'', meaning "homestead", or "settlement" and ''fawr'', meaning "large, big". The Cornish langu ...

, is also a doctor. In 1973 he performed the first successful

bone marrow transplant Hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation (HSCT) is the transplantation of multipotent hematopoietic stem cells, usually derived from bone marrow, peripheral blood, or umbilical cord blood, in order to replicate inside a patient and produce a ...

in Europe. and pioneered in 1978 the use of cyclosporine in bone marrow transplantation, published simultaneously with Sir Roy Calne for kidney transplantation. In 1983 he, in conjunction with Prof Tim McElwain reported the first autologous stem cell transplant for multiple myeloma He was Physician-in-Charge (from 1974) and Group Head for Haemato-Oncology (from 1993) at the Leukaemia and Myeloma Units of the

Royal Marsden Hospital The Royal Marsden Hospital is a specialist National Health Service oncology hospital in London based at two sites in Brompton, in Kensington and Chelsea, and Belmont in Sutton. It is managed by The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust and supp ...

. He was also, from 1977, Professor of Haemato-Oncology at the

University of London The University of London (UoL; abbreviated as Lond or more rarely Londin in Post-nominal letters, post-nominals) is a collegiate university, federal Public university, public research university located in London, England, United Kingdom. The ...

Institute of Cancer Research The Institute of Cancer Research (the ICR) is a public research institute and a member institution of the University of London in London, United Kingdom, specialising in oncology. It was founded in 1909 as a research department of the Royal Ma ...

. Ray and Trevor were each made

Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Commander (commonly abbreviated as Cmdr.) is a common naval officer rank as well as a job title in many armies. Commander is also used as a rank or title in other formal organizations, including several police forces. In several countries, ...

(CBE) in 2002 for their services to medicine. Together, they received Lifetime Achievement awards in the 2013 Pride of Britain awards, presented to them by the then-prime minister,

David Cameron David William Donald Cameron, Baron Cameron of Chipping Norton (born 9 October 1966) is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2016. Until 2015, he led the first coalition government in the UK s ...

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* * 1938 births British identical twins Place of birth missing (living people) Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Fellows of the Royal College of Pathologists Living people {{UK-med-bio-stub