Honorary Senior Lecturer
Consultant Nephrologist
Research area
Renal transplantation.
Research programme
Research summary
Dr Mark Harber is a consultant nephrologist with a specialist interest in transplantation.
He has research interests in the immune system, infectious diseases and transplantation, urinary tract infection and acute kidney injury.
Dr Harber's research interests also include monitoring the immune system for over and under immunosuppression, prevention of ischaemia reperfusion injury and infectious diseases such as cytomegalovirus and urinary tract infection.
Dr Harber also has an interest in supporting teaching and service development in developing countries including Malawi and Myanmar.
Publications
- Selected publications
- Lumley S, Green C, Rafferty H, Smith C, Harber M, O'Beirne J, Jones G, Thorburn D, Marshall A, Shah T, Zuhair M, Rothwell E, Atabani S, Haque T, Griffiths P. Cytomegalovirus viral load parameters associated with earlier initiation of pre-emptive therapy after solid organ transplantation. PLoS One. 2019. 14(1):e0210420.
- Antonelou M, Henderson SR, Bhangal G, Heptinstall L, Oliveira B, Hamour S, Harber M, Salama AD. Binding Truths: Atypical Anti-Glomerular Basement embrane
- Disease Mediated by IgA Anti-Glomerular Basement Membrane Antibodies Targeting the α1 Chain of Type IV Collagen. Kidney Int Rep. 2018. 4(1):163-167.
- Al Midani A, Elands S, Collier S, Harber M, Shendi AM. Impact of Urinary Tract Infections in Kidney Transplant Recipients: A 4-Year Single-Center Experience. Transplant Proc. 2018. 50(10):3351-3355.
- Reekie I, Irish D, Ijaz S, Fox T, Bharucha T, Griffiths P, Thorburn D, Harber M, MacKinnon S, Sekhar M. Hepatitis E infection in stem cell and solid organ transplantpatients: A cross-sectional study: The importance of HEV RNA screening in peri-transplant period. J Clin Virol. 2018. 107:1-5.
- Shendi AM, Wallis G, Painter H, Harber M, Collier S. Epidemiology and impact of bloodstream infections among kidney transplant recipients: A retrospective single-center experience. Transpl Infect Dis. 2018. 20(1).
- Griffiths PD, Rothwell E, Raza M, Wilmore S, Doyle T, Harber M, O'Beirne J, Mackinnon S, Jones G, Thorburn D, Mattes F, Nebbia G, Atabani S, Smith C, Stanton A, Emery VC. Randomized Controlled Trials to Define Viral Load Thresholds for Cytomegalovirus Pre-Emptive Therapy. PLoS One. 2016. 11(9):e0163722.
- Pike R, Thomas N, Workman S, Ambrose L, Guzman D, Sivakumaran S, Johnson M, Thorburn D, Harber M, Chain B, Stauss HJ. PD1-Expressing T Cell Subsets Modify the Rejection Risk in Renal Transplant Patients. Front Immunol. 2016. 7:126.
- Pruthi R, McClure M, Casula A, Roderick PJ, Fogarty D, Harber M, Ravanan R. Long-term graft outcomes and patient survival are lower posttransplant in patients with a primary renal diagnosis of glomerulonephritis. Kidney Int. 2016. 89(4):918-26.
- Lewis S, Harber M, Fernando B, Banga N. Rapid and Early Diagnosis of Posttransplant Lymphoproliferative Disease Using Cross-Sectional Nuclear Medicine Imaging and Laparoscopic Lymph Node Biopsy: A Report of 2 Cases. Exp Clin Transplant. 2017. 15(4):470-473.