Dr. Kamoun has a broad background in immunology and human immunogenetics, with specific training and expertise in clinical histocompatibility testing. He received his training in human immunogenetics in Dr. Jean Dausset’s laboratory in Paris, France. He is Board-certified in Clinical Pathology and Immunopathology. He is the Director of Clinical Immunology and Histocompatibility Testing in the Department of Pathology at Penn. He has over 30 years of extensive experience in providing expertise and oversight for high complexity HLA testing at Penn for all transplantation programs including clinical trials. In addition, he served as PI or Co-Investigator on several previous and current university- and NIH-funded grants including the Penn Autoimmunity Center of Excellence (ACE); the U01 Clinical Trial in Islet Cell Transplantation and R34 Clinical Trial in Lung Transplantation. His current interests are focused on understanding the significance of HLA polymorphism in alloreactivity and tolerance induction in clinical transplantation using a multidisciplinary approach combining molecular techniques with bioinformatics methods. Dr. Kamoun has dedicated his research career to investigations in human immunogenetics, lymphocyte biology and clinical transplantation research. He has made numerous significant contributions to these areas during the last 37 years.

 Immunology, Molecular Techniques, Bioinformatics, Clinical Trials, Biomedical sciences, Immunogenetics