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Mission: Genome Diagnostics aims to offer accurate diagnostic tools to facilitate donor/recipient matching, ultimately leading to higher success rates of bone-marrow, cord blood and stem cell transplantations.
For transplantation there is a high need for a tissue match between patient and the donor. Without a full match there is an increased chance that the transplanted organ or bone marrow may be rejected. Besides many immediate negative effects for the patient, a failed transplantation also affects future transplantation, as the patient may become highly sensitized.
Tissue typing can be carried out by various methods. The preferred method of choice is dependent on several factors like location, access to technology, expertise of personnel and allocated budget. In the UMC Utrecht researchers have developed a strategy that allows typing of the donors and patient at the highest resolution.
This Sequencing Based Strategy (SBT) has become the gold standard. However, proper implementation had been delayed by the availability of adequate software, reliable reagents and proper training and support.
GenDx now offers a comprehensive solution that has already been adopted by a significant number of laboratories worldwide.
SBT Training School, 24th - 26th March
(Program submitted for ABHI Continuing Education Credit)
There are still a few places available in our SBT Training School at the end of the month.
Click here for more information, including details on how to register.
Genome Diagnostics is proud to support the IMGT/HLA database, a specialist database for sequences of the human major histocompatibility complex (HLA). The IMGT/HLA Database is part of the international ImMunoGeneTics project (IMGT).
For more details on the hot topic of the forthcoming new nomenclature, please click here
Teaching Sessions 2010
Teaching Sessions will take place before the EFI meeting in Florence, Italy on Saturday May 15th and before the ASHI meeting in Hollywood, Florida, in September 2010.
For more information, including details on how to register, please click here.
Newsletter
We regularly send out a newsletter with information about latest developments on high resolution typing, SBTengine and HLA-SBT Training Schools. To subscribe to this, please click here.
HLA-SBT Training School: 24th - 26th March
There are still some places available for GenDx's 6th Annual Sequencing-Based Typing Training School here in Utrecht, The Netherlands. Learn all you need to know about accurate high resolution HLA typing in just over 2 days. Topics include:
• Hands-on training in the lab
• Extensive practice with software analysis
• Help with your own data
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