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Links to resources and useful information

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Clinical and Transplantation Manual

General Medicine

AllergyImmunoLinx.com/Surgery/Transplantation Articles - Daily update of clinical developments including allergy, immunology, and surgery/transplantation articles aggregated from hundreds of premier medical journals.
Healio - In-depth specialty clinical information website including educational activities. Search for relevant topics by key words e.g., transplantation.
MedScape - Multi-specialty (including transplantation and allergy/immunology) medical information and education tool.

Haematopoietic Cell Transplant

Be The Match (Operated by the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP) - Unrelated donor hematopoeitic stem cell registry website. Educational material primarily for patients/families. Clinical website designed for health care professionals. Some topics provide continuing education credits.
World Marrow Donor Association - The WMDA is now overseeing Bone Marrow Donors Worldwide (BMDW), now called Search and Match Service, a database of donor phenotypes that can facilitate international searches for unrelated donors. The site also gives worldwide hematopoeitic stem cell transplantation statistics and lists publications related to unrelated donors and registries.
Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research - Slides on transplant statistics, access to cell repository and transplant data, publication list.
Allied Learning Center - FACT - Centralized resource providing educational material related to the cellular therapy community. Non-members may pay a fee. Continuing education credits available.

Solid Organ Transplant

The Immune Tolerance Network (ITN) - International clinical research consortium founded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), whose mission is to accelerate the clinical development of immune tolerance therapies.
UNOS - Information on solid organ transplantation and donation, allocation calculators, guidelines, and policies.
UNOS Connect - A comprehensive learning management system for transplant and procurement professionals, which offers webinars, e-learning modules, patient safety videos, and other online training resources.
Alliance for Paired Donation - Information on paired kidney donation.

Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients - Statistical and other analytic support to the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN); reports to the Department of Health and Human Services.
HRSA Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network - Educational material on donation, allocation, and transplantation; CPRA calculator; data on transplantation.
Canadian Blood Services - Canadian CPRA calculator and educational material on transplantation.
The Canadian Donation and Transplantation Research Program (CDTRP) - The CDTRP training webinars and videos; a selection of videos from the CDTRP and partners that cover topics in solid organ transplant, hematopoeitic cell transplant, donation, and critical care research.
Organ Donation Toolbox - Organ donation and transplantation information

Government and Regulations

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS, formerly HCFA) - U.S. federal government website listing guidance and regulations for clinical laboratories, educational material.
Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) - U.S. regulations for clinical laboratories.
Federal Register - Daily journal of the U.S. government listing regulations and guidance.
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) - U.S. regulations and guidance for health and safety in the workplace.
Safety Data Sheet (SDS)Search - Safety information about chemicals.
Congress - U.S. congressional legislation and links to legislative representatives.
Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) - U.S. government policies and data about organ transplantation.
C.W. Bill Young Cell Transplantation Program - U.S. government policies and data about hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.

Societies

Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics

APHIA - Asia-Pacific Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics Association - APHIA promotes and assists the study of Tissue Typing, Immunogenetics and Transplantation Immunology. They provide quality control, standardization, and other support including research advice, as well as education of public and medical professionals.
British Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics (BSHI) [UK] - BSHI promotes and protects health for the public benefit by developing and maintaining good practices in histocompatibility and immunogenetics and encouraging the advancement of scientific research and knowledge.
European Federation for Immunogenetics (EFI) - The purpose is to support immunogenetics, histocompatibility testing, and transplantation, and to develop recommendations for standardization of techniques, quality control, and criteria for accreditation in Europe.

Transplantation / Transfusion

AABB (formerly the American Association of Blood Banks) - AABB brings together those engaged in transfusion medicine and cellular therapies. The goal is to make transfusion medicine and cellular therapies safe, available, and effective worldwide by leading in standards development, accreditation, and implantation of quality systems.
American Society for Transplantation and Cellular Therapy (previously American Society of Bone Marrow Transplant) - Select recordings from the Transplantation and Cellular Therapy Meetings (TOC), formerly the BMT Tandem Meetings.
American Society of Transplantation - Education including webinars, videos, and journal clubs. Non-members may pay a fee.
International Pediatric Transplant Association - Professional organization of individuals in the field of pediatric transplantation.
American Foundation for Donation and Transplantation (AFDT) (formerly SEOPF) - Offers in-person courses in histocompatibility.
European Society for Organ Transplantation (ESOT) - ESOT is a major Eurpoean society of transplant professionals. It offers an extensive course program to scientists and medical doctors, enhances a network of European laboratories, and organizes a biannual Congress where participants can learn about the latest achievements in transplantation.
International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) - Multidisciplinary professional organization dedicated to improving the care of patients with advanced heart or lung disease through transplantation, mechanical support, and innovative therapies via research, education, and advocacy.
The Transplantation Society (TTS) - Their core mission is to include the development of the science and clinical practice, scientific communication, continuing education, and guidance on ethical practice.

Immunology / Cell Biology

American Association of Immunologists (AAI) - An association of professionally trained scientists dedicated to advancing the knowledge of immunology and its related disciplines, fostering the interchange of ideas and information and addressing the potential integration of immunologic principles into clinical practice.
American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) - An international community of biologists dedicated to advancing scientific discovery, advocating sound research polices, improving education, promoting professional development and increasing diversity in the scientific workforce. The organization has a very nice listing of educational resources under the Educators tab.
Clinical Immunology Society (CiS) - The mission is to facilitate education, translational research, and novel approaches to therapy in clinical immunology to promote excellence in the care of patients with immunologic/inflammatory disorders.
Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies (FOCIS) - FOCIS exists to improve human health through immunology by fostering interdisciplinary approaches to both understand and treat immune-based diseases. (ASHI is a participating society.)

Technology

Association of Medical Laboratory Immunologists (AMLI) - AMLI unites basic and clinical scientists who have developed expertise in diagnostic laboratory immunology, its specialties, and related science.
International Clinical Cytometry Society (ICCS) - ICCS serves the needs of those involved in current and emerging clinical applications of cytometry. Their education tab provides extensive resources for cytometry.
International Society for Advancement of Cytometry (ISAC) - ISAC is committed to facilitating access to high quality educational experiences in all aspects of cytometry.

Journals and Libraries

Libraries

HighWire Press - A service of Stanford University Libraries, large free full-text science archive with access to many scientific journals.
Medline Plus - Extensive information from the National Institutes of Health and other trusted sources on over 500 diseases and conditions. Includes lists of hospitals and physicians, a medical encyclopedia and dictionaries, health information in Spanish, extensive information on prescription and nonprescription drugs, current health news, and links to thousands of clinical trials.
National Library of Medicine - A large collection of articles and search engines such as PubMed, Medline Plus, TOXNET and BLAST.
Pubmed - Search engine comprising more than 29 million citations for biomedical literature from Medline, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.

Newsletters / Magazines

Leukemia Insights Newsletter - From the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center - a source of information on the treatment of hematologic malignancies including hematopoietic cell transplantation
“The Scientist” Online - Online magazine covering life science news including print articles, online stories, and multimedia features on scientific discoveries, trends in research, innovative techniques, new technology, business, and careers.

Journals (Access to the following journals may require subscription)

General/Medical

Technical/Laboratory

Histocompatibility/Immunogenetics:

Genetics/Molecular Medicine

Immunology/Immunotherapy

Transplantation/Organ

Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation/Hematology

Autoimmunity

Transfusion Medicine

Immunogenetics, MHC, HLA and disease association resources

Allele Frequencies in Worldwide Populations - Population frequency data for HLA antigens and epitopes, KIR, MIC and cytokines.
Bioinformatics Resources Maintained by NMDP - NMDP’s list of HLA resources: Haplostat, Haplotype Frequencies, Multiple allele codes.
Common and Well Documented Alleles - Common, intermediate, and well-documented HLA alleles in world populations: CIWD version 3.0.0 (2020).
IMGT/HLA Database - Human MHC database of curated sequences and tools.
Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM) - An online catalog of human genes and genetic disorders.
HLA Matchmaker - HLA Matchmaker Software by Rene Duquesnoy, Ph.D
HLA Nomenclature - WHO-approved nomenclature for the HLA system.
HLA Epitope Registry - Database of eplets/epitopes with ElliPro scores, polymorphic residues, frequency, antibody reactivity, Luminex alleles, and structural epitopes.
18th International HLA and Immunogenetics Workshop - Web page of the next workshop.
Immunopolymorphism Database - Centralized system for the study of polymorphism in genes of the immune system (MHC, KIR, platelet antigens, HLA).

Molecular biology, genetics, cells, and antibodies

National Center for Biotechnology Information - Components of NCBI include PubMed, Bookshelf, BLAST, BankIt. Tools to manipulate sequences, look at crystal structures of proteins, as well as educational materials including webinars on informatics.
Rutgers | UC San Diego Protein Data Bank - Educational material on proteins and structures.
Cold Spring Harbor History of DNA - History of major advances in genetics and DNA.
National Human Genome Research Institute (NIH ) - Educational resources on genetics.
Khan Academy - Short lectures on various topics in biology and health/medicine; free access.
Cells Alive - This website contains a wealth of computer-enhanced images of living cells and organisms for education and medical research. It includes a section for immunology describing antibody production.
The Antibody Resource Page - Antibody information site that contains 2 million antibody products from 170 suppliers in a highly searchable format and includes method specific applications.

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