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William Lane, MD, PhD, A(ACHI)

Director Tissue Typing Laboratory
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts

Dr. Lane is an Associate Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. He obtained his PhD from Rockefeller University in 2007 and his MD from Weill Cornell Medical School in 2009. He completed a Clinical Pathology residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in 2012. He also completed several fellowships at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in 2014, including: Blood Banking/Transfusion Medicine, Molecular Genetic Pathology, and Clinical Informatics.

He currently serves as the Director in the Tissue Typing Lab at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Bill is a co-founder of the Transfusion Medicine Question of the Day, which has over 5,000 subscribers. He is a founder member of the Blood Transfusion Genomics Consortium (BGC). His research involves the development of software and assays related to blood group and HLA antigens. These include the development of the official ISBT blood group database and the HLA Serotype Database. He has also created assays and automated interpretive software to determine blood groups from DNA arrays and next-generation sequencing data.

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