Dr. Allen J. Norin Elected to Represent New York State Transplant Laboratories on the Histocompatibility Committee of UNOS
Nov 30, 2016
Brooklyn, NY – Allen J. Norin, PhD, D (ABHI), professor of medicine and of cell biology and director of transplant immunology and immunogenetics at SUNY Downstate Medical Center, was elected to represent the New York State Transplant Laboratories on the Histocompatibility Committee of the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS). UNOS oversees the organ transplant waiting list in the United States.
Dr. Norin has served for many years on the Medical Board of the greater New York metropolitan area organ procurement organization, LiveOnNY, as the representative of the six Histocompatibility Laboratories in New York City.
Dr. Norin’s research interests include transplant immunology, tumor immunology, and the molecular basis of cancer. He has been funded by the National Institutes of Health since 1977.
A contributor of numerous scholarly articles to professional journals, he joined SUNY Downstate in 1988. He is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Association of Immunologists, the New York Academy of Sciences, and the American Society of Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics. He received his PhD from the University of Houston in 1972.
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About SUNY Downstate Medical Center
SUNY Downstate Medical Center, founded in 1860, was the first medical school in the United States to bring teaching out of the lecture hall and to the patient’s bedside. A center of innovation and excellence in research and clinical service delivery, SUNY Downstate Medical Center comprises a College of Medicine, College of Nursing, School of Health Professions, a School of Graduate Studies, School of Public Health, University Hospital of Brooklyn, and a multifaceted biotechnology initiative including the Downstate Biotechnology Incubator and BioBAT for early-stage and more mature companies, respectively.
SUNY Downstate ranks twelfth nationally in the number of alumni who are on the faculty of American medical schools. More physicians practicing in New York City have graduated from SUNY Downstate than from any other medical school.