Donor Selection for SOT Guided by NGS High Resolution HLA Typing in Combination with PIRCHE

20/06/2019

Our Interactive User Group Meeting at the EFI 2019 Conference was a forum where participants could learn about Omixon’s products, interact with current users and network with NGS and HLA experts. One of our guest speakers, Dr. Mette Christiansen presented on the benefits of high resolution HLA typing in...

New Approaches in HLA Matching – HLA Matchmaker

27/03/2019

Written by Dr. Libor Kolesár (Senior Field Applications Scientist, Omixon) Introduction Most transplant laboratories’ protocols for donor/patient matching are based on the number of mismatches between patient and donor HLA alleles/antigens. The fewer mismatches between two individuals, the better. In solid organ transplantation (SOT) minimum matching refers to...

Mortality Prediction Hidden in our Genome

26/02/2019

The success of hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) is influenced by many factors including HLA mismatches, variations in the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) region, minor histocompatibility targets of allorecognition, regulatory elements that affect gene expression and genetic variation that affects immune responses (Table 1, Table 2). The individual contribution...

Omixon to Sponsor EWIC 2019 Conference with Scientific Talk

11/02/2019

Omixon is proud to announce that we are one of the Silver Sponsors of the Annual EWIC 2019 Conference. Libor Kolesár (Senior Field Application Scientist) and Nina Lauterbach (Field Application Scientist) will announce improvements to the existing products and an interesting talk by Mette Christiansen from Aarhus University. Title of...

Stories of Hope – Interesting Transplants Around the World

27/11/2018

Written by Renata Santos (Field Application Scientist, Omixon) A story of the Roman Catholic history reported the third-century saints Damian and Cosmas replaced a gangrenous leg of the Roma deacon, Justinian, with the leg of a deceased Ethiopia man (1). The evolution of transplant can be traced from ancient...