Our last course took place at the end of March 2010 and we were delighted to welcome participants from as close by as Utrecht and as far as Pittsburgh.
Some comments from this year's participants,
"It was a very good interactive course with the right balance of practical, interactive software training and presentations. Also very useful to hear about future developments", Jelena Williams, Barts and the London Hospital Trust, UK
"I would recommend this training session to anyone performing sequence based typing", Lynn Nichol, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC
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Sponsorship has been awarded to:
2010 Lynn Nichol, MT(ASCP), CHS, Supervisor, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC Histocompatibility Center
2009 No sponsorship requests where received from participants
2008 No sponsorship requests where received from participants
February 2007 Dr. A.S. Mohammed, National Blood Transfusion Service Kaduna in Nigeria Mr. M. Al Awaji, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
September 2006 Mr. Dr. Franzs Agiz, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Laboratoire d'Haematologie Immunologie , Pointe-Ã -Pitre, Guadeloupe Mr. Dr. Mahendra N Mishra, Military hospital, Bangalore, India
March 2006 Mrs. MD Angela Evans, Birmingham University Hospital, National Blood services, Birmingham, United kingdom
January 2006 Mr. dr. Frantisek Mrazek, Palacky University Hospital, Olomouc, Czech Republic
Reports of HLA-SBT Training School participants.
"After finishing the course, I believe that SBT is the ultimate solution for all high resolution HLA typing and I am sure that the products of Genome Diagnostics for SBT are very powerful tools for performing HLA typing using SBT." Read report of dr. Mohammad Awaji | February 2007
"The system is simple and the software easy to use. For those who like me have no practical experience of HLA sequencing, the HLA-SBT training school is a good way to start." Read report of dr. Frantz Agis | September 2006
"I found it informative, well presented and run in a very relaxed and friendly atmosphere. I am sure that their typing protocols and analysis software will play an increasing part in high resolution typing for the HLA system in the future." Read report of dr. Angela Evans | March 2006
"'The atmosphere of the courses was open to discuss and to exchange experiences between the participants from different countries. SBTengine® appeared to me as reliable, user friendly and highly versatile" Read report of dr. Frantisek Mrazek | January 2006
