HLA laboratory

The Laboratory of Immunogenetics and Transplantation is run as a joint facility of the Departments of Medicine 3 and 5. It has been accredited by the European Federation for Immunogenetics (EFI) since 1999.

One of the basic tasks of the laboratory is to provide immunogenetic organ donor diagnostics for solid organ transplantation and immunological care for the Eurotransplant area of the Transplantation Network Northern Bavaria with the transplant centers Erlangen-Nuremberg, Würzburg and Regensburg. These tasks are performed on behalf of the German Foundation for Organ Transplantation (DSO).

In the field of bone marrow and blood stem cell transplantation, immunogenetic and immunological diagnostics for potential familial stem cell donors and recipients are performed for the KMT Center of the Universitätsklinikum Erlangen at the Department of Medicine 5 and the Pediatric and Adolescent Clinic. In addition to high-resolution HLA class I and II typing, the laboratory offers chimerism determinations after allogeneic stem cell transplantation. As a cooperation laboratory of Aktion Knochenmarkspende Bayern (AKB), we participate in typing campaigns for the AKB donor file.

A further task of the laboratory is HLA diagnostics in connection with disease associations such as ankylosing spondylitis, rheumatoid arthritis, celiac disease etc.