When the Homily is about Immunology

Some Uganda details

The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center is working to assist the Uganda Cancer Research Institute. Being an Infectious Disease guy, my work is going to be to basically transfer our technology to them and to train someone to run the assays we have designed in our lab back here in the states.

Human Herpes Virus 8 (HHV8) is a leading cause of cancer, particularly among kids and immune-compromised patients. The particular assay we will be transferring detects and quantitates this virus.

Here's a PDF doc with more details and pics.