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The European Union must deliver funding for research of blood disorders
At the 20th Annual Congress of EHA, the results of two major projects are presented. The first is a study into the Cost of Blood Disorders in the EU Member States and Norway, Iceland, and Switzerland.
Read moreAnnouncement: The award winners of the prestigious EHA-ASH Translational Research in Hematology Training Award are selected
The winners of the TRTH 2015 Awards are:
Name
Nationality
Name
Nationality
Ileana Antony-Debre
French
Jean-Baptiste Micol
French
Pavan Bachireddy
American
Christopher Ott
American
Lucile Couronné
French
Carsten Riether
German
Moniek de Witte
Dutch
Anindita Roy
British
Ammon Fager
American
Melody Smith
American
Gillian Horne
British
Zuzana Tothova
Slovakian
Moonjung Jung
South Korea
Marcin Wlodarski
Polish
Jonas Samuel Jutzi
Swiss - German
Yuh-Ying Yeh
Taiwanese
Milka Koupenova-Zamor
American - Bulgarian
Sasan Zandi
Iranian
Marwan Kwok
British
Patricia Maiso
Spain
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First Horizon 2020 Work Programme update – budget, and launch of FTI and innovation prizes
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Read moreABT-199: Novel Bcl-2 specific inhibitor updated results confirm substantial activity and durable responses in high-risk CLL.
Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia (CLL) is the most common leukemia in adults in the Western world and is diagnosed in approximately 5 persons per 100,000 population per year.
Read moreMutiple 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.
Read moreHarnessing new developments in genomics to improve outcome for children with poor prognosis leukemia
At the 19th Congress of the European Hematology Association (EHA), we will learn about the state-of-the-art in management of childhood AML.
Read moreMajor research funding calls are out now
First, the Innovative Medicines Initiative published its final call under the EU Seventh Framework Programme. Interestingly for hematologists, the call includes a project called ‘Blood-based biomarker assays for personalized tumour therapy: value of circulating biomarkers’.
Read moreThe International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis (ISTH) Hosts its Second Advanced Training Course on Thrombosis and Haemostasis on March 13-16, 2014
The Second Advance Training Course is a follow-up to the successful inaugural course organized in 2011 and attended by 200 professionals. Course speakers include nine international and regional experts in the field of thrombosis and haemostasis.
Read morePosition of EHA on Research Funding
The challenge
The cost of biomedical research is great, but the cost of disease is immense. An ageing population and expensive innovations in medicine put an increasing burden on already stressed healthcare budgets.
Targeting the B-cell Receptor in Aggressive B-cell Lymphomas
In collaboration with Dr. Lou Staudt, Pharmacyclics and associate investigators, we performed a clinical trial of a very potent inhibitor of Bruton Tyrosine Kinase (BTK) called ibrutinib.
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