Sandra Tafulo
PhD
Instituto Português de Sangue e da Transplantação
Research group
Nephrology Dialysis & Transplantation
HLA allosensitization laboratory supervisor in Porto Blood and Transplantation Center – Portuguese Institute of Blood and Transfusion. Integrates the Portuguese Kidney Exchange Program (KEP) in Portugal since 2014 and the KEP for South Alliance for Transplantation (KEPSAT) since 2017.
Finished the PhD in Biomedical Science in Abel Salazar Biomedical Science Institute – Oporto University in 2021 with the research theme HLA eplet mismatches in kidney organ transplantation.
Inspector for European Federation of Immunogenetics (EFI) since 2016, member of EFI Accreditation Committee and member of American Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics (ASHI) International committee since 2023.
Since 2021 is Coordinator of Portuguese Histocompatibility and Immunogenetic Group in Portuguese Transplantation Society (SPT).
Member of the review editor board of the journal Frontiers in Genetics – section Immunogenetics.