King Fahd Specialist Hospital will organize a two-day Dammam International Transplant and Immunology Symposium and Workshop in Al-Khobar starting Sunday. Labmas and Epitope Workshops for HLA Lab technologists/specialists will also be held on the sidelines of the event. Rabab Ali Al-Attas, MD, Chairman of the Organizing Committee and KFSH head of Immunology and histocompatibility (HIL) Lab Department pathology and laboratory medicine, said the topics for discussion will include the immune system in relation to transplantation, advanced laboratory techniques applied to transplantation and innovations in genomics and proteomics in transplant medicine. The latest in pharmacological immunosuppression and many other topics at the cutting edge of stem cell cellular and solid organ transplantation will also be discussed.
