APHIA Education Webinar Series
Presented by the newly formed APHIA Education Committee
Join us in Promoting and Advancing the Field of Histocompatibility & Immunogenetics!
APHIA is dedicated to fostering excellence and innovation in the field of Histocompatibility & Immunogenetics! We invite you to be part of our mission to promote, support, and educate our scientists, researchers and clinicians.
The goals and visions for the APHIA education committee is to facilitate education in H&I, provide quality control and standardisation support, promote and encourage research and advancements in these fields.
The APHIA Education Webinar Series will be available to APHIA members live and recorded on the APHIA website with a member log in!
For a short time only, these webinars will be available to non-members! These webinars will then only be available to members, so we encourage you to join APHIA for access!
Feedback, suggestions and participation can be forwarded to the APHIA Education Committee via the APHIA Secretariat at aphia@asnevents.net.au
Webinar 3
Title: Scientific Principles to Improve the Accuracy and Reliability of HLA Antibody Detection
Speaker: Dr Rajalingam Raja
Date: Thursday 31st October 2024 @ 12:00 PM AWST
To register for webinar 3 please click here
Bio
Dr Rajalingam Raja currently serves as the Laboratory Director, Clinical Consultant, and Technical Supervisor for the Immunogenetics and Transplantation Laboratory at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF). Dr Raja's academic background includes six years of PhD studies focusing on HLA diversity at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, followed by six years of post-doctoral research in NK cell immunogenetics at Stanford. His extensive experience spans 22 years in clinical histocompatibility laboratory directorship within high-volume transplant centres at UCLA and UCSF, shaping him into a highly skilled investigator dedicated to the fields of histocompatibility, immunogenetics, and transplant immunology. He facilitates over 1200 kidney, heart, lung and bone marrow transplants per year at UCSF and at University of Southern California.
