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Highlights from the SWG

SWG Committee meetingsIn 2023, the SWG Committee held meetings on:

February 21, 2023—online
April 6, 2023—in The Hague
June 8, 2023—at the EHA Congress 2023 in Frankfurt
In addition, an SWG Chairs and Committee Meeting was held on September 29, 2023, in The Hague.…

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EHA-PTHiT Mini Hematology Tutorial

EHA and the Polish Society of Hematology and Transfusion (PTHiT) are happy to present the second virtual 'mini Tutorial'. This two-day meeting aims to assess and increase your knowledge of the treatment of myeloid and lymphoid diseases.

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EHA-HKSH Hematology Tutorial

EHA is joining the Hong Kong Society of Hematology (HKSH) to organize the EHA-HKSH Hematology Tutorial on Lymphoid Malignancies.

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Treatment, medicine and hematology research: What patients want and doctors need (to know)

Jan Geissler, a Patient Advocate remarked about the Congress: “Over and above scientific updates, much can be achieved in partnership between hematologists and patients.

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Genome sequencing of thousands of patients with rare blood disorders

Approximately 3M people have a rare bleeding disorder or disease of platelets, which are the cell fragments that help blood clot. The genetic causes of dozens of such disorders are known (e. g.

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Mutiple Myeloma at the 19th Congress of the European Hematology Association: What is new?

During the meeting, recently developed approaches for diagnosis and monitoring will be presented. Gene-expression-profiling to detect molecular subgroups with a different prognosis and high-throughput-sequencing to identify new genetic lesions will be discussed.

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Effective treatment of aging patients with hematological diseases discussed during SWG Aging meeting in Poland

The progress in the field of aging and the optimal and rational approaches of "fit" and "unfit" older patients with malignant hemopathies was the focus of the three-day EHA-SWG Scientific Meeting on Aging and Hematology held on October 12-14, 2018 in…

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Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia: impressive results with the monoclonal antibody blinatumomab

The Phase 2 dose-ranging study MT103-206 evaluated the efficacy, safety and tolerability of blinatumomab in adult patients with B-precursor Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia who had relapsed following treatment with standard front-line chemotherapy or allogeneic stem cell transplant.

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EHA leads Tutorial in Kazakhstan for better understanding of lymphomas

EHA, in collaboration with the Kazakhstan Cancer Society (KCS) and Kazakh Institute of Oncology and Radiology (KazIOR), organized its very first tutorial together on March 14-16 in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

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Connecting experts on inherited anemias and iron defects in Budapest

October 12-14, 2023 – Budapest, Hungary 

Meeting Chairs: 
Ali Taher, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon 

Achille Iolascon, University Federico II of Naples, Naples, Italy 

In October 2023 EHA and the Specialized Working Group (SWG) on Red Cell and Iron hosted a…

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