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Lambris Lab

The Lambris Lab consists of an international and interdisciplinary team that investigates the various aspects of innate immunity, and particularly the complement system, in health and disease. The integrated research approach encompasses projects such as the quantitative analysis of protein-protein interactions of complement components, the development of therapeutic complement inhibitors (e.g. Compstatin), complement evasion by human pathogens, and the role of complement in liver regeneration and cancer development.

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Malek Kamoun, MD, PhD

Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Director, Clinical Immunology and Histocompatibility Laboratory
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania 

Taku Kambayashi, MD, PhD

Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

Associate Vice Chair for Research 
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Robert W. Doms, MD, PhD

Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Professor of Microbiology
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

Chair and Pathologist-in-Chief
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Douglas B. Cines, MD

Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Professor of Medicine
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania 

Attending Physician, Coagulation Laboratory

Janis K. Burkhardt, PhD
Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Kumarasen Cooper, MBChB, DPhil, FRCPath
Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Craig H. Bassing, PhD
Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

NIAID $10 Million Grant Renewal for Study of Complement System

July 14, 2014

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) has awarded a five-year, $10 million renewal of a program project to study the oldest part of the human immune system, the complement system.

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David Michael Allman, PhD
Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

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