Organizing Committee Member
Andrzej Lange
Professor and Head
Lower Silesian Center for Cellular Transplantation & National Bone Marrow Donor Registry
Poland
Biography
Andrzej Lange graduated with a medical degree with distinction from the Medical School in Wroclaw, Poland, where he also completed his doctor of medical sciences thesis and then after a critical review of his scientific activity received the title of doctor habilitatus. He served as an assistant and then associate professor in the Department of Internal Diseases and then Occupational Diseases, where he founded the Laboratory of Clinical Immunology. In 1980 he was offered a position in the Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy of the Polish Academy of Sciences, where he has worked until now as the professor and head of the Laboratory and Department of Clinical Immunology. His international experience started in 1973 as a Leverhulme Fellow in the Department of Immunology of Middlesex Hospital Medical School, London, where he worked under the guidance of Professor Ivan Roitt. During an eight-year period he used to spend three months yearly as a visiting scientist in the Institute of Experimental Medicine and Biology in Borstel, FRG, headed at that time by Professor Han-Dieter Flad. He has been a short term-visitor and lectured in a number of European and North American scientific institutions including the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Paris University.
Research Area
Clinical Immunology,Internal medicine,Immunogenetics (HLA and immune response, genomic DNA typing in pathology studies and bone marrow donor prospecting, standardization and quality assurance of HLA typing), cellular immunology (cytokine-dependent regulation of the NK cell system), autoimmune diseases (pathomechanism and diagnosis) immunotoxicology (aromatic hydrocarbons and immunomodulatory properties of asbestos fibers, carcinogenesis), bone marrow transplants (allogeneic transplants in hematologic disorders, aplastic anomalies and congenital malformations, immune reconstitution and GvH)