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A European Reference Network for Rare Hematological Diseases

Jan 26 2016 Posted in Advocacy news

You may have heard of European Reference Networks (ERNs). But most likely you have not. ERNs are networks of specialized hospital departments and research centers to treat rare or low-prevalent complex diseases.

Survey Monitoring H2020 – your input is needed!

Oct 08 2015 Posted in Advocacy news

We need your input to improve Horizon 2020 and the next Research and Innovation Framework Programme of the European Union.

Adding elotuzumab to standard treatment for multiple myeloma significantly reduced the risk of disease progression, with benefits sustained at two years

Jun 12 2015

ELOQUENT-2, which evaluated elotuzumab in combination with lenalidomide and dexamethasone, is the first Phase III study to demonstrate the benefit of directly activating the immune system in the treatment of patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma.

Novel basis for chemoresistance in AML: DNMT3A R882 mutations promote chemoresistance and residual disease through impaired DNA damage sensing

Jun 12 2015 Posted in Press releases

Although most acute myeloid leukemia (AML) patients initially respond to chemotherapy, the majority subsequently relapses and succumbs to refractory disease. Residual leukemic cells that survived chemotherapy may persist over time and later cause the disease to come back.

Training vital for new era of patient-centric healthcare

Jun 05 2015 Posted in Press releases, Advocacy news

Christine Chomienne, president of the European Hematology Association (EHA), was speaking at the third annual conference of the European Alliance for Personalised Medicine (EAPM) – a Brussels-based organization that brings together stakeholders from academia, through research,…

Announcement: The award winners of the prestigious EHA-ASH Translational Research in Hematology Training Award are selected

Nov 25 2014 Posted in Press releases

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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Can Eltrombopag help children with ITP say goodbye to bleeding?

Jun 13 2014 Posted in Press releases

Immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) is a rare disease in children, affecting 5 in 100,000. Most children get better quickly without intervention but up to 30% will still have disease at 12 months.

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

May 21 2014 Posted in Press releases

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.

Advances from genome sequencing are paving the way to personalized treatment for leukemia and pre-leukemia

Apr 04 2014 Posted in Press releases

In acute myeloid leukemia (AML) our understanding of how modifications to DNA molecules that do not result in sequence change (i. e.

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

Mar 25 2014 Posted in Press releases

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