Dr. Dianne De Santis is a Clinical Scientist, a teaching adjunct with the University of Western Australia, is a qualified ASHI Laboratory Director and a Faculty of Science Fellow of the Royal College Pathologists Australia. She completed a PhD investigating the role of Killer Immunoglobulin-like receptors in Haematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation (HSCT). Dianne’s expertise is in new technologies in the field of Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics and how these tools can be used to improve patient transplantation outcomes.
Dianne is the current President of the Asia-Pacific Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics Association, and a councillor on the International Histocompatibility Workshop committee. She is also on the board of the Racing for MNDi charitable foundation which supports research at Murdoch University, Western Australia to find a treatment or cure for MND caused by the C9orf72 gene.
