Paul Keown

Paul Keown (UBC Medicine), a specialist in immunology and transplantation, is a Professor in UBC’s Department of Medicine and a practicing physician at Vancouver General Hospital. He has served as the Executive Director of the BC Transplantation Program, President of the Canadian Transplantation Society and as Head of the Division of Nephrology (2004-2009). Currently he is the Director of the Vancouver General Hospital Immunology Laboratory, the Lead for the Precision Medicine in Transplantation UBC Research Excellence Cluster, and the Lead for Genome Canada Transplant Consortium (2018-2025).

Over his career Dr. Keown has contributed to the fields of immunopharmagology, immunogenetics, immunotherapeutics, molecular genetics and proteomics with 500+ visiting professorships, plenary addresses, or invited lectures, over 350 published abstracts and more than 400 scientific manuscripts, editorials and book chapters.