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Karen Sherwood

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The University of British Columbia & Vancouver General Hospital, Canada
Biography

Dr Karen Sherwood graduated from the University of Edinburgh and completed post-doctoral training in genetics, computational biology and immunology at the Roslin Institute in Scotland and the Heart Lung Institute in Vancouver. She is Director of the British Columbian Provincial Transplant Immunology Department at Vancouver General Hospital, Co-Principal Investigator and scientific Lead for the Genome Canada Transplant Consortium program, and Cluster Director for University of British Columbia Precision Transplant Cluster.

Recent publications

Tran, J.N. et al. Novel alleles in the era of next-generation sequencing-based HLA typing calls for standardization and policy. Front Genet. 14:1282834 (2023).
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2023.1282834

Kakodkar, P. et al. Validation of next-generation sequencing-based chimerism testing for accurate detection and monitoring of engraftment in hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Front Genet. 14:1282947 (2023).
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2023.1282947

Fenninger, F. et al. Comprehensive immune profiling of SARS-CoV-2 infected kidney transplant patients. Front Transplant. 2:1261023 (2023).
DOI: 10.3389/frtra.2023.1261023

Sherwood, K.R. et al. Genome Canada precision medicine strategy for structured national implementation of epitope matching in renal transplantation. Hum Immunol. 83(3):264-269 (2022).
DOI: 10.1016/j.humimm.2022.01.002

Talks at this conference

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