Books By Federico Garrido - Author

Prof. Federico Garrido is Professor of Immunology at the University of Granada Medical School and head of the Dept. of Clinical Analysis & Immunology at the Hospital Universitario Virgen de las Nieves, Granada, Spain. After obtaining his MD and PhD degrees from the University of Granada in 1974, Prof. Garrido went on as a postdoctoral fellow at the laboratory of Dr. Hilliard Festenstein at the London Hospital Medical College in London, investigating the immunogenetics of the MHC (H-2) system by typing mouse tumour cells for H-2 expression. After returning to Granada in 1981 he continued his research on HLA typing of human tumour tissues. Prof. Garridos research focuses on the expression of HLA antigens in tumours and the role that these molecules play on tumour evasion from the immune system.