Staff Profile

Martin Howell is a Consultant Clinical Scientist and is currently Head of Histocompatibility & Immunogenetics Service Development within NHS Blood and Transplant. Previously he has directed clinical Histocompatibility & Immunogenetics and Molecular Pathology laboratories and has published extensively in disease and transplant-related immunogenetics.He holds an honorary academic post in the Translational and Clinical Research Instiute, Newcastle University.

Develooment of improved methods of high resolution HLA and related immunogenetic genotyping for clinical application in transplant matching and for disease immunogenetics investigations.

Lecturer in MRes in Medical and Molecular Biosciences Transplantation module.

• Howell WM, Rose-Zerilli MJ. Cytokine gene polymorphisms, cancer susceptibility, and prognosis. Journal of Nutrition 2007, 137(1), 194S-199S.
• Carter V, Torpey N, Talbot D, Mutunga M, Pengilley R, Brand A, Matthews CJ, Howell WM. A classical case of accelerated acute rejection - A kidney rescued by early recognition and intervention. In: International Journal of Immunogenetics. 2007, Birmingham, UK: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
• Giles K, Mutunga M, Howell WM, Carter V. ATG and luminex antibody screening - A cautionary tale. In: 17th Annual Conference of the # You have full text access to this content British Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics. 2006, Sheffield: International Journal of Immunogenetics: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
• Brand A, George S, Howell WM. Differences in IL-2-330 genotype frequencies among different ethnic groups. In: 17th Annual Conference of the British Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics. 2006, Sheffield, UK: International Journal of Immunogenetics: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
• Romaines C, George S, Moore K, Clarke A, Thomson M, Carter V, Howell WM. Frequency of B*44 alleles and CW associations in Northern British bone marrow registry (BBMR) donor population. In: 17th Annual Conference of the British Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics. 2006, Sheffield, UK: International Journal of Immunogenetics: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
• Howell WM, Rose-Zerilli MJ. Interleukin-10 polymorphisms, cancer susceptibility and prognosis. Familial Cancer 2006, 5(2), 143-149.
• Carter V, Wilson C, Manas D, Mutunga M, Latimer S, Pengilley R, Giles K, Howell WM. Late antibody mediated rejection in liver transplantation - A case study, or proof of principle?. In: 17th Annual Conference of the British Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics. 2006, Sheffield, UK: International Journal of Immunogenetics: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.