The Department of Immunology was established in 1990 and is situated in the Institute for Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Prinshof Campus.

The Department conducts research and teaching/training at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Our diverse range of students includes medical technicians, technologists, scientists, undergraduate medical/dental and paramedical students, as well as postgraduate students at the MSc and PhD levels.

The Department of Immunology has a number of major services commitments, including provision of serodiagnostic (auto-immune, allergic, infectious diseases), complementology, flow cytometric (leukaemia immunophenotyping, detection and monitoring of primary and secondary immunodeficiency diseases), and tissue typing procedures (HLA typing and HLA antibody detection).