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Michael Cecka, PhD, D(ACHI)

UCLA Immunogenetics Center

J Michael Cecka, PhD is Professor Emeritus at the UCLA Immunogenetics Center, Department of Pathology and Lab Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles. He was certified by the American Board for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics and an HLA Laboratory Director and held licenses in California, Hawaii and New York. He directed the UCLA Tissue Typing Laboratory in Los Angeles, the Hawaii Cellular Therapy and Transplant Laboratory in Honolulu and the American Red Cross Southern California Region HLA Laboratory in Pomona. He currently serves on the Medical Board of the National Kidney Registry, facilitating access to transplantation for sensitized patients through kidney paired donation.
Dr Cecka received his PhD in Microbiology at UCLA and explored antigen presentation in the context of the structure and function of major histocompatibility molecules during postdoctoral studies at the California Institute of Technology, University College London and the University of Basel. He joined the UCLA Tissue Typing Laboratory under Dr Paul Terasaki in 1982 and began to work with the UCLA International Kidney Transplant Registry. He was involved in the development of the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) national Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients and managed the UNOS Kidney Transplant Registry from 1989-2000. He served on the Scientific Advisory Committee for UNOS from 1987-2000 and several other UNOS committees since. He was among the architects of the change in assessment of sensitization for transplant candidates to a calculated PRA and the US national kidney allocation system.

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