Nicholas K. Brown, PhD, F(ACHI)

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Associate Professor of Clinical Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Associate Director, Histocompatibility Testing Laboratory, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Department: Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

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Founders 7019
3400 Spruce Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: 215-615-7789
Education:
BA (Biology)
Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, MI, 2000.
PhD (Immunology and Microbiology (incl. Research Assistant role))
Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, 2007.
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Selected Publications

Misra MK, Brown NK, Marino SG.: Next-generation sequencing identifies two novel HLA-DPB1 alleles: HLA-DPB1*1069:01 and DPB1*1072:01. HLA 103(2), Feb 2024 Notes: doi: 10.1111/tan.15368.

D. Bell, M. Personius, V. McCarro, T. Bui, N. Brown: The DRB4*03:01N allele confounds NGS typing software. Human Immunology 84(Supplement): P109, September 2023.

L. Gragert, K. Lindblad, C. Jett, M. Mankowski, M. Mangiola, D. Stewart, G.P. Morris, J. Lunz, N. Brown : Estimating rates of immunologically incompatible organ offers caused by use of antigen-level deceased donor HLA typing for allocation. Human Immunology 84(Supplement): 021, September 2023.

E. Kamieniecki, N. Brown: An R program for automatic quality control of single antigen bead assays via Levey-Jennings charts. Human Immunology 84(Supplement): P116, September 2023.

Dasariraju S, Gragert L, Wager GL, McCullough K, Brown NK, Kamoun M, Urbanowicz RJ: HLA Amino Acid Mismatch-Based Risk Stratification of Kidney Allograft Failure Using a Novel Machine Learning Algorithm. J Biomed Inform 142: 104374, June 2023.

Brown NK, Peyster EG, Bui T: R for HLA Data: A Suite of Tools for Managing and Analyzing Data from Clinical HLA Laboratory Information Systems. American Journal of Transplantation 23(6, supplement 1): S756, June 2023.

Potluri V, Naqvi F, Goldberg DS, Shah M, Loupy A, Abt P, Blumberg E, Trofe-Clark J, Bloom R, Sawinski D, Chattergoon M, Segev DL, Bair-Marcantoni N, Durand CM, Reddy R, Levine M, Brown N, Mapchan S, Aubert O, Desai N, Reese PP: Longer-Term Clinical Outcomes From the THINKER and EXPANDERTrials of Transplantation of HCV-RNA+ Donor Kidneys Into Hepatitis C Virus-Negative Recipients. Kidney International Reports April 2023.

Brown, NK: Carving your path through ASHI: An interview with Dr. Nicholas Brown. Coffee & Compatibility Podcast April 2023.

Nicholas Brown, Thanh-Mai Bui: An open-source program to gather relevant data for virtual crossmatch. Human Immunology 83(S1): P145, November 2022.

F. Brad Johnson, Sandra Mateu, Edward Vo, Jane Kearns, Thanh-Mai Bui, Nicholas Brown, Malek Kamoun: An unusually well HLA-matched pairing between a homozygous HLA-A*03:02 deceased donor kidney and a highly sensitized patient carrying HLA-A*03:02 and having antibodies to HLA-A*03:01. Human Immunology 83(S1): P33, November 2022.

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