Karen Sherwood

Dr. Karen Sherwood is the director of the British Columbian Provincial Transplant Immunology Laboratory at Vancouver General Hospital; a clinical associate professor at the department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine in University of British Columbia (UBC); a co-principal investigator and the scientific lead for the Genome Canada Transplant Consortium program; and the cluster director for the Precision Medicine in Transplantation Research Excellence Cluster at UBC.  

Dr. Sherwood’s research primarily focuses on precision medicine in the context of transplantation, encompassing both hematopoietic stem cell and solid organ transplantation. Her work involves translational immunology, aiming to bridge the gap between basic scientific research and clinical application to enhance patient care. She is particularly involved in projects that utilize genomic and precision health technologies to personalize treatments and reduce the risk of transplant rejection.

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