Meet the Young EHA Committee
Welcome to the family. Get to know the Young EHA Committee and learn how you can make a difference.
Nuno Borges, MBBS MRes (Chair)
Role: Physician. Training/work: Portugal and UK (currently). Interests: Improving member engagement with YoungEHA and promoting opportunities for international cooperation.
Alba Maiques-Diaz, PhD (Vice Chair)
Role: Basic and translational scientist. Training/work: Spain. Interests: Empowering YoungEHA women and helping to expand their careers.
Franziska Auer, PhD
Role: Biomedical scientist. Training/work: USA and Germany. Interests: Dr. Auer specializes on the identification of genetic predisposition to pediatric cancer, with a specific focus on PAX5 and B-cell leukemia. Her expertise includes CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing and murine in vivo models.
Anna Avagyan, MD
Role: Physician. Training/work: Armenia. Interests: Building a robust community of young hematologists from Europe and beyond; facilitating the career paths of young pediatric hematologists; improving medical education and healthcare in regions with limited resources to meet European standards; supporting young scientists interested in clinical research.
Côme Bommier, MD
Role: Physician-scientist. Training/work: France. Interests: Fostering connections between EHA and residents or early career physicians-scientists in France.
Lorenzo Brunetti, MD PhD
Role: Physician scientist. Training/work: Italy. Interests: Boosting connections between young hematologists and EHA.
Eleni Gavriilaki, MD PhD
Role: Physician scientist. Training/work: Greece (currently) and USA. Interests: Collaboration with national and international societies, expanding research and clinical networks with other specialties or scientists (computing, mechanics, physchology)
Ruxandra Irimia, MD
Role: Physician. Training/work: Romania (currently), USA. Interests: career development opportunities (mentoring, training); strengthening the connections between YoungEHA and the local national hematology associations.
Rafal Machowicz, MD, PhD, MSc
Role: Physician scientist. Training/work: Poland (currently) and USA, France, Germany. Interests: Helping others to see the beauty of hematology. Bridging between scientists from different backgrounds for better research. Sparking students' interest in hematology.
Pedro Moura, PhD
Role: Biomedical scientist. Training/work: UK and Sweden (currently). Interests: My research line focuses on investigating RNA and protein biology in the context of splice factor-mutant early hematopoiesis and stem cell biology.
Rhiannon Newman, MSc
Role: PhD researcher, basic and translational scientist researching into personalised medicines for AML patients. Training/work: Finland. Interests: My research line focuses on investigating RNA and protein biology in the context of splice factor-mutant early hematopoiesis and stem cell biology.
Marlies Vanden Bempt, PhD
Role: Biomedical scientist. Training/work: UK and Belgium. Interests: Marlies loves to present her scientific results to the scientific community, but she is equally interested in bringing science into the lives of young and old non-scientists.
Carlo Zaninetti, MD PhD
Role: Physician scientist. Training/work: Germany (currently) and Italy. Interests: Scientific cooperation and networking in the field of non-oncologic hematology.
