{"id":5598,"date":"2020-10-30T11:51:29","date_gmt":"2020-10-30T15:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pathology\/?post_type=directory&#038;p=5598"},"modified":"2026-03-20T15:39:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T19:39:59","slug":"jlschmit","status":"publish","type":"directory","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pathology\/directory\/jlschmit\/","title":{"rendered":"John Schmitz"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Research Interests<\/h2>\n<p>I direct the Immunology, Histocompatibility\/Immunogenetics and Flow Cytometry Laboratories at UNC Hospitals. These laboratories perform and consult with providers on a variety of tests for UNC Health patients with particular emphasis on immunodeficiency, infectious, allergic and autoimmune disease diagnostics, solid organ and hematopoietic cell transplantation. My teaching activities contribute to the education of laboratory staff, graduate and medical students, residents and clinical fellows in several subspecialties. In addition, I direct the UNC Hospitals Medical Laboratory Immunology Training Program that trains doctoral level individuals to direct diagnostic immunology and histocompatibility laboratories. Research interests include assessment of the impact of HLA antibodies on solid organ transplant outcomes and development and evaluation of novel immunodiagnostic methods.<\/p>\n<h2>Publications<\/h2>\n<p>List of publications from\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/sites\/entrez?Db=pubmed&amp;Cmd=DetailsSearch&amp;Term=Schmitz+JL[Author]\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PubMed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research Interests I direct the Immunology, Histocompatibility\/Immunogenetics and Flow Cytometry Laboratories at UNC Hospitals. 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My teaching activities contribute to the education of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pathology\/directory\/jlschmit\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about John Schmitz\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":9507,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-5598","directory","type-directory","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","odd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>John Schmitz | Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pathology\/directory\/jlschmit\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"John Schmitz | Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Research Interests I direct the Immunology, Histocompatibility\/Immunogenetics and Flow Cytometry Laboratories at UNC Hospitals. 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