Asbjørg Stray-Pedersen, Norway

Oslo University Hospital - Rikshospitalet Norwegian National Unit for Newborn Screening, Division of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine
Asbjørg’s interests are rare pediatric disorders with a special focus on primary immunodeficiencies and congenital bone marrow failure syndromes. She is a board certified specialist in medical genetics, and her PhD was in immunogenetics. After medical training, she started working at Centre for Rare Disorders, and then moved over to the Pediatric Department and Department of Medical Genetics, Oslo University Hospital. She has worked as a research fellow at Prof. Jim Lupski’s lab Center for Mendelian Genomics, Baylor College of Medicine and with Prof. Jordan Orange, Center for Human Immunobiology Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, Texas. Currently working as a senior clinical consultant and researcher at the Norwegian National Unit for Newborn Screening. This laboratory was the first in Europe to introduce newborn screening for severe combined immunodeficiency, performing rapid NGS of dry blood spot DNA as part of the screening algorithm.

Moderator of 1 Session

Meet the Expert
Room
Silver
Date
20.09.2019, Friday
Session Time
07:45 - 08:45