Anthony Nolan Research Institute
Professor Steven GE Marsh, BSc, ARCS, PhD, FRCPath
Chief Bioinformatics and Immunogenetics Officer, Anthony Nolan
Professor of Immunogenetics, University College London
Professor Marsh is the head of HLA Informatics Group within the Anthony Nolan Research Institute and Professor of Immunogenetics at University College London. He is Chairman the WHO Nomenclature Committee for Factors of the HLA System, and the WHO/IUIS Nomenclature Committee for Killer-cell Immunoglobulin-like Receptors (KIR). He is a former President of the European Federation for Immunogenetics, the International HLA and Immunogenetics Workshop, and the British Society of Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics. He Co-Chaired the 16th International HLA and Immunogenetics Workshop and Conference in Liverpool in 2012. One aim of his research group is to improve the outcome of Haematopoietic Cell Transplantation by understanding genetic and non-genetic differences between patients and donors including HLA, KIR and their roles in matching. This is achieved by both bioinformatics and laboratory-based projects. He initiated the IPD-IMGT/HLA Database over 30 years ago.
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Wednesday, October 23, 2024
2:45 PM – 4:15 PM US PDT
History of HLA antigen/allele nomenclature
Wednesday, October 23, 2024
2:46 PM – 3:15 PM US PDT