Dr. Paul A. Keown is Professor of Medicine and Director of Immunology at the University of British Columbia, with appointments in Medicine, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine.
Dr. Keown is the project leader and will oversee all aspects of the research Dr. Keown will work towards improving donor/recipient matching by determining the HLA class I and II epitope frequencies in the Canadian population. In addition, Dr. Keown will lead the development of rapid, accurate and sensitive tests for epitope matching and immune monitoring in transplant patients. Dr Keown will also work towards the development of pharmacology models to allow for personalized treatment of transplant recipients.
Dr. Keown‘s principal research activities encompass immunopharmacology, immunogenetics, immunotherapeutics, molecular genetics, and proteomics. Dr. Keown’s research also focuses on pharmacokinetics and therapeutic drug monitoring, phase I-IV national and international clinical trials, economic evaluation, utility measurement and outcome analysis in health care delivery. He is Professor of Medicine at the University of British Columbia and served as Executive Director of the BC Transplantation Program, Director of Immunology, Head of the Division of Nephrology, President of the Canadian Transplantation Society, Member of Council and President of the XXIII International Congress of the Transplantation Society. Dr. Keown graduated in Medicine from the University of Manchester, and pursued postgraduate training in England, France, and Canada. He holds research Doctorates in both Medicine and in Science from the University of Manchester, and an MBA from Simon Fraser University in British Columbia. He was a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada, the Royal College of Physicians of London, the American College of Physicians, the American Society of Nephrology and American Society of Angiology, and the Royal College of Pathologies and Royal Society of Chemistry in 2009. Dr. Keown is the founder and C.E.O. of Syreon Corporation, a global research corporation specializing in the use of advanced information technologies for health sciences research.
