11th Congress News

Fellowships and Grants 2006 awarded during the 11th Congress

Chairs: M Cazzola ( Editor, Haematologica/The Hematology Journal) and S. Shattil (Editor-in-Chief, Blood)

Autologous transplantation should be performed in front-line treatment of follicular lymphoma (FL).

Update on clinical trials preforme by MDS cooperative groups in Europe.

Dr Pandolfi gave a brilliant presentation on his view of NPM1 and tumorigenesis.

Dr Bolli described the competition between NPM leukemic mutants and ARF protein.

Two main subjects were covered in the Friday morning session at the 11th Congress.

Dr Ferrarini stressed that CLL is not an accumulation disease as was thought many years ago; it is a disease of immunocompetent B cells and antigen stimulation plays a major role.

Today profession press and dutch radio and television have covered main topics of the 11th Congress. Below you will find today's press releases.

Reduced intensity instead of standard conditioning in allo-HSC transplantation.

E. Gluckman . The first cord blood transplant (CBT) was in 1988.