Don’t miss our Industry Symposium to learn more about the field and get updated about our latest developments!
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Closing the Gaps in Post-Transplant Monitoring: The Power of HLA TestingArthi Anand PhD |
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High-Resolution Typing in Solid Organ TransplantationCynthia Kramer PhD |
Date: Wednesday, October 8, 2025
Time: 1:40pm – 2:35pm
Location: Grand Cypress Ballroom G-I
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.
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.
User’s Perspective on New Technologies: Improving HLA Typing workflows using Nanopore & Chimerism Monitoring with NGS
12:15pm Welcome & Introduction, Maarten Penning PhD, CTO & General Manager at GenDx
12:30pm User’s Perspective: Real Time PCR & Nanopore Sequencing Comparison, Alison J. Gareau, PhD, D(ABHI)
1:00pm User’s Perspective: Post Transplant Monitoring with STR & NGS , Valia Bravo-Egana, PhD, F(ACHI), MBA
1:30pm GenDx New Developments, Hanneke Merkens PhD, CMO at GenDx
2:00pm Wrap-up Final Questions, Maarten Penning PhD, General Manager at GenDx
Are you attending EFI 2022?
Join the GenDx Satellite Symposium and get updated with the latest advances in transplant diagnostics
Are you attending ASHI 2021?
Join our virtual User Group Meeting and get updated about our next-generation sequencing solutions!
After the User Group Meeting, a live Q&A with our specialists will follow.
This meeting will focus on HLA Typing by Next Generation Sequencing. We will provide current users with a platform for sharing knowledge, experiences, and ideas.
The program will include a heavy emphasis on advanced data analysis using NGSengine; test the limits by sharing your own challenging cases! Additionally, we ask for each participating center to share a scientific presentation or case study with the aim of igniting discussions among our experts and your peers.
Interested to immerse yourself in all aspects of HLA Typing by NGS? Contact our education team via education@gendx.com and find out if there are still seats left!
Did you miss our User Group Meeting at the ASHI 2020 virtual annual meeting on Wednesday October 21, 2020? You can find the recording of the meeting below.
Speakers:
Pascal van der Weele PhD
Project Manager R&D, GenDx
Presentation: Performing Chimerism monitoring by NGS
Sake van Wageningen PhD
Project Manager R&D, GenDx
Presentation: Multiplex amplification for fast and easy HLA typing
Prof.Dr. F.H.J. (Frans) Claas
Leiden University Medical Centre | LUMC · Department of Immunhematology and Blood Transfusion
Presentation: Transplantation of highly sensitized patients based on acceptable mismatches
User Group Meeting on Wednesday October 21, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Speakers:
We would like to invite you to our satellite symposium about NGS typing for Transplantation Diagnostics and Chimerism Monitoring on Tuesday, April 28. The symposium features presentations by Wietse Mulder PhD (GenDx), Prof dr. Christian Seidl (German Red Cross – DRK Bloodbank), Xiangjun Liu PhD (Beijing Lab) and Maarten Penning PhD (GenDx).
