20 Years of Advancing Transplantation, One Typing at a Time
Join our User Group Meeting at the ASHI 51st Annual Meeting, being held at the Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress from October 6 – 10, 2025.
Date: Wednesday, October 8, 2025
Time: 1:40pm – 2:35pm
Location: Grand Cypress Ballroom G-I
Speakers:
- Maarten Penning, PhD – New Developments
- General Manager GenDx
- Eszter Lazar-Molnar, Ph.D., D(ABMLI), F(ACHI) – High Resolution Deceased Donor Typing: The Path Forward
Dr. Eszter Lázár-Molnár is an Associate Professor in the Department of Pathology at the University of Utah School of Medicine. She is the CLIA director of the Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics Laboratory at University of Utah Health and also serves as a medical director in the Immunology Division at ARUP national reference laboratory.
Dr. Lázár-Molnár’s interest is transplantation and HLA disease association testing, diagnostic laboratory immunology, immunogenicity, and laboratory test interference by monoclonal antibody therapeutics. She is board certified by the American College of Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics (Fellow of ACHI), and by the American Board of Medical Laboratory Immunology (ABMLI).
In her free time, she likes to enjoy the outdoors, hiking, mountain biking, or skiing with her family.
- James H Lan, MD, FRCP(C), F(ACHI) – NGS-Pronto for Precision Medicine
Dr. James Lan is an Assistant Professor and clinician-scientist jointly appointed to the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and the Division of Nephrology at University of British Columbia. He is the Medical Director of the Vancouver Immunology Laboratory and a transplant nephrologist at Vancouver General Hospital. His laboratory is the principal site of the Genome Canada Transplant Consortium and a UBC Precision Medicine in Transplantation Excellence Cluster. Dr. Lan is a Michael Smith Foundation Health Scholar. He receives funding from the CIHR, Genome Canada, Genome BC, Kidney Foundation of Canada, and the Canadian Donation and Transplantation Research Program to support the development and application of new technologies to improve donor-recipient immune compatibility, minimize alloimmune injury, and develop solutions for difficult-to-match patients.
Dr. Lan holds leadership positions as Co-Chair of the Canadian Blood Services HLA Advisor Committee, Co-Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Organ Donation and Transplant Research Foundation of BC, and Immunology Consultant for BC Transplant. He is an associate editor for Frontiers in Genetics and the American Society of Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics Quarterly. Dr. Lan contributes to the education of future clinicians and scientists by lecturing in the Georgetown series, the American Foundation for Donation and Transplantation, and the Canadian Society of Transplantation Fellows Symposium. He also presents regularly as an invited speaker both nationally and internationally.
