{"entity":{"id":"lee-sung-gyu","kind":"person","name":"Sung-Gyu Lee","aka":[],"tldr":"Built the world's highest-volume living-donor liver transplant programme, a cornerstone of liver cancer care in Asia.","summary":"Sung-Gyu Lee is Professor of Surgery at Asan Medical Center in Seoul and leads its liver transplantation programme. He pioneered dual-graft and right-lobe living-donor liver transplantation, building the world's highest-volume living-donor programme, which treats a large share of Korean hepatocellular carcinoma within transplant criteria and is a cornerstone of liver cancer care in Asia. His publications include a description of dual-graft adult living donor liver transplantation as a procedure for expanding the live donor pool. His interests are living-donor liver transplantation, hepatocellular carcinoma surgery and hepatobiliary surgery.","asOf":"2026-09-08","links":[{"label":"Asan Medical Center","url":"https://eng.amc.seoul.kr"},{"label":"PubMed author search","url":"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Lee%20SG%5BAuthor%5D%20Asan%20living%20donor%20liver%20transplantation"}],"tags":[],"related":[],"cancers":["hcc"],"sections":[],"technologies":["liver-transplant-oncology"],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":[],"institutions":["asan-medical-center"],"pathways":[],"terms":[],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":[],"keyPapers":[],"journals":[],"dependsOn":[],"notes":[],"role":"Professor of Surgery; Asan liver transplantation programme","institutionId":"asan-medical-center","specialisms":["Living-donor liver transplantation","Hepatocellular carcinoma surgery","Hepatobiliary surgery"],"profiles":[{"label":"Asan Medical Center","url":"https://eng.amc.seoul.kr"},{"label":"PubMed author search","url":"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Lee%20SG%5BAuthor%5D%20Asan%20living%20donor%20liver%20transplantation"}],"papers":[{"title":"Dual-graft adult living donor liver transplantation: an innovative surgical procedure for live liver donor pool expansion","journal":"Annals of Surgery","year":2017,"doi":"10.1097/SLA.0000000000001776"}],"orcid":"0000-0001-9161-3491"},"route":"/people/lee-sung-gyu/","neighbours":{"cancer":[{"id":"hcc","kind":"cancer","name":"Hepatocellular carcinoma","route":"/cancers/hcc/"}],"technology":[{"id":"liver-transplant-oncology","kind":"technology","name":"Liver transplantation for cancer (Milan criteria and beyond)","route":"/technologies/liver-transplant-oncology/"}],"institution":[{"id":"asan-medical-center","kind":"institution","name":"Asan Medical Center","route":"/institutions/asan-medical-center/"}]}}