Immunology Training - University of Birmingham

Essential immunology

We are grateful to Dr. Stephen Young for his contribution to these lecture notes on essential immunology.

Diagnosis of patients with immunodeficiency
The immune response to infection
Allergy
Immunological Tolerance and Autoimmunity
HLA- disease associations and transplantation
Tissue specific autoimmune diseases
Systemic autoimmune disease
Normal production of lymphomyeloid cells and their neoplastic counterparts

Clinical Immunology Training Seminars

Title	Speakers	Presentations
Improving the Staging Systems in MRC multiple Myeloma Trials	Janet Dunn, Mark Drayson	Available
Introduction to Internal Auditing	Geoff Holt	Available
Anti-Neutrophil Cytoplasm Antibody Associated Vasculitis	Matthew Morgan	Available
Risk assessment - how, why and implications	Beverley Davies	Available
Modernising Scientific Careers	Louise Stewart	Available
Revolutionising the way you look at allergy	Phadia	Available
Food allergy. Know your enemy	ImmunoCAP	Available

Myeloma Forum

Title	Presentations
Understanding immune system	Available

Hitchhikers day: B and T cells in health and disease

Topic	Speakers	Presentations
T cell ontogeny	Graham Anderson	Available
Cellular responses to viral infections	Paul Moss	Available
Adoptive immunotherapy	Paul Moss	Available
Radiosensitivity syndromes	Malcolm Taylor
Plasma Cell Dyscrasias	Mark Drayson	Available
Organisation of lymphoid tissues	Peter Lane	Available
Antibody responses	Peter Lane	Available
T cell neoplasms phenotyping and clinical presentation	Sylvie Freeman	Available
B cell neoplasia – phenotypes and clinical presentation	Sylvie Freeman	Available
Plasma cells	Ian MacLennan	Available
EBV infection and immunity	Andrew Hislop	Available
EBV infection and leukaemogenesis	Sridhar Chaganti	Available
SLE pathogenesis	Chee-Seng Yee	Available
T cells in inflammatory disease	Dagmar Scheel-Toellne	Available
Data on MGUS and Myeloma	Mark Drayson	Available

Clinical Scientist Training Network

Diagnostic value of antibodies in clinical practice

by Dr. Mohammed El lahawi, Consultant Neurologist, Department of Neurology, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham

Detection of paraneoplastic neurological antibodies

by Dr. Abid Karim, Principal Clinical Scientist specialist in neuroimmunology, University of Birmingham Medical School

Research and Development

The department is ideally placed for research and development activities having close ties with both clinical and research departments in the University and the Trust. This facility to bridge basic and clinical research with routine clinical practice is the main reason for situating the service within the medical school environment.

Departmental R & D activities may be appreciated by looking through our publications.