Scientific and educational activities
To work on our plans for a workshop, online journal club, and public outreach, we organized:
- Two online meetings
- One in-person business meeting during EHA2024
Together with the SWG on Aging and Hematology, we applied to organize a SWG scientific meeting in 2025. Our application was positively reviewed by EHA. The workshop will take place in Barcelona in November 2025 with the title ‘From ageing hematopoietic stem cells to age-related diseases: opportunities for intervention.’ Several members of our SWG have been working with EHA and the SWG on Aging and Hematology to organize this workshop.
On December 2, 2024, we organized our first online journal club.
The format of our online journal club is as follows:
- The first and last author of a recent, leading publication in the field are invited to present their publication
- They present the most crucial data from the paper in a reliable, yet entertaining manner, including some background stories and information that’s usually not mentioned in a manuscript
In the first journal club, David Kent, Michael Spencer-Chapman, and Alyssa Cull presented their paper ‘Clonal selection of hematopoietic stem cells after gene therapy for sickle cell disease’ (Nature Medicine 2023).
Finally, we’ve started work on the concept for the public outreach of our SWG, which we’ll continue to develop in 2025.