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Dr Andrew Gennery - Biography
Dr Gennery is Reader at Newcastle Univrersity and honorary consultant at
the Great North Children’s Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, in
Paediatric Immunology and Haematopoietic Stem Cell
Transplantation. His clinical training was in Newcastle and London, and he
spent a year working in the laboratory at Necker Hospital, Paris, under
Anne Durandy and Alain Fischer, where he was part of the team that
discovered the first genetic cause of autosomal recessive hyper IgM,
Activation-induced Cytidine Deaminase (AID) Deficiency. He has published
widely, with over 200 articles on primary immunodeficiency, treatment and
outcomes, as well as chapters in major text books. He has led or coauthored numerous disease-specific consensus statements and
management guidelines. He is PID sub-section editor of the Orphanet
Journal of Rare Diseases, Associate Editor for Frontiers in
Immunology and Editorial Board member of Journal of Clinical
Immunology. He is currently paediatric lead on the UKPID Registry
Committee, as well as Chair of the ESID/EBMT Inborn Errors Working
Party. He is regularly invited to speak at international meetings in Europe,
North and South America, Asia and Australia, and has many contacts in
Europe and around the world with leaders and opinion-formers in the
field.