Search Tag: transplantation

2013 11 Mar

Tests based on next-generation sequencing with Roche’s GS Junior System. The Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service of Upper Austria has become the first laboratory in Europe to receive accreditation from the European Federation for Immunogenetics (EFI) for the use of human leukocyte antigen (HLA) tests based on next-generation sequencing with Roche’s...Read more

2013 06 Mar

Image: Drs. Marie-Josée Hébert, Mélanie Dieudé and Héloïse Cardinal (Credit: CRCHUM) A team led by Dr. Marie-Josée Hébert from the University of Montreal Hospital Research Centre (CRCHUM) has discovered a new cause of organ rejection in some kidney transplant patients. Her team has identified a new class of antibodies – anti-LG3 – which when activated...Read more

2012 18 Mar

Concept developed by two long-time friends, Facebook’s COO and a Johns Hopkins transplant surgeon When Harvard University friends Sheryl Sandberg and Andrew M. Cameron, M.D., Ph.D., met up at their 20th college reunion last spring, they got to talking. Sandberg knew that Cameron, a transplant surgeon at Johns Hopkins,...Read more