Nomenclature Committee
The Comparative Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) Nomenclature Committee seeks to provide a guiding framework for allelic nomenclature across all non-human species. Much of the approach taken by the Comparative MHC Committee mirrors aspects of the work of the WHO Nomenclature Committee for Factors of the HLA System. The composition of the current committee is shown below.
| Name | Taxa of Interest | Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| John Hammond (Chair) | Cattle/Ruminants | The Pirbright Institute, UK |
| Keith Ballingall (Immediate Past Chair) | Sheep/Ruminants | Moredun Research Institute, UK |
| Mike Stear | Sheep/Ruminants | La Trobe University, Australia |
| John Schwartz | Cattle/Ruminants | The Pirbright Institute, UK |
| Chak-Sum Ho | Swine | Gift of Hope Organ & Tissue Donor Network, Histocompatibility and Infectious Disease Testing Laboratory, United States |
| Sabine Hammer | Swine | University of Veterinary Medicine, Austria |
| Ronald Bontrop | Non-Human Primates | Biomedical Primate Research Centre, The Netherlands |
| Natasja de Groot | Non-Human Primates | Biomedical Primate Research Centre, The Netherlands |
| Unni Grimholt | Salmonid Fish | Norwegian Veterinary Institute |
| Jim Kaufman | Chicken | University of Cambridge, UK |
| Donald Miller | Horses | Baker Institute for Animal Health, Cornell University, NY, USA |
| Lorna Kennedy | Dogs and Cats | Centre for Integrated Genomic Medical Research, UK |
| Lutz Walter | Rat | German Primate Centre |
| Dorothea Heimeier | Cetacea | Honorary Research Fellow at University of Auckland |
| *Steven Marsh | Humans IPD-IMGT/HLA and IPD-MHC Database | UCL Cancer Institute, UK |
| *James Robinson | IPD-MHC Bioinformatics | Anthony Nolan Research Institute and UCL Cancer Institute, UK |
| *Giuseppe Maccari | IPD-MHC Bioinformatics | The Pirbright Institute and Anthony Nolan Research Institute, UK |