Category: User Group Meeting

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
  • General Manager GenDx

• Eszter Lazar-Molnar, Ph.D., D(ABMLI), F(ACHI)
  • Associate Professor, Department of Pathology
  • University of Utah and Director, Histocompatibility&Immunogenetics Laboratory

• James H Lan, MD, FRCP(C), F(ACHI)
  • Assistant Professor (tenure-track)
  • University of British Columbia and Director, Immunology Laboratory

GenDx User Group Meeting

Tuesday, October 17, 12:15 pm – 02:05 pm | San Antonio Marriott Rivercenter

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

Why Gamble on your Rapid HLA Typing or Chimerism Testing? Hit the Jackpot with GenDx

Thursday, October 26, 11:45 pm – 13:35 pm | 

NGS-Turbo®: Rapid, Easy, Robust – High Resolution HLA Typing Within 4 Hours

• Pascal van der Weele PhD, Project Manager R&D at GenDx
• Erik Rozemuller PhD, Senior Scientist Bioinformatics at GenDx

New & Future Developments

• Maarten Penning PhD, Chief Technology Officer at GenDx

World Diabetes Genetics: A Survey of HLA and Type I Diabetes

• Janelle Noble PhD

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.

Virtual meeting & matching: new reality?
Update on multiplexed NGS & Chimerism monitoring and new insights on Epitope matching

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:

• Professor Frans H.J. Claas, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden will give a presentation about the acceptable mismatches in transplantation
• Pascal van der Weele PhD, GenDx, will give an update about the GenDx solutions on NGSchimerism
• Sake van Wageningen PhD, GenDx, will speak about the new multiplex NGSgo-MX11-3, available by GenDx

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).