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King Baudouin Foundation – Calls with a relevance to hematology

The King Baudouin Foundation is an actor for change and innovation, serving the public interest and increasing social cohesion. It endeavours to maximise its impact through capacity building among organisations and people who contribute to building a better society.

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ATMPs and CAR-T: the uptake challenge

Advanced therapy medicinal products (ATMPs) are a game changer for improving the life of patients with severe to life-threatening diseases. In hematology, for instance, CAR T cell therapy has shown promising results in tackling different blood cancers.

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Sanquin Blood Supply will culture erythrocytes for transfusion purposes

ABO-Rh-D matched transfusions result in alloimmunisation in 3-5% of recipients. Once allo-immunized, it may become very difficult to find appropriate donor erythrocytes, especially when multiple antibodies or rare combinations of antibodies are present.

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SWG Educational Activities

Recruitment trialsRecruitment is underway for the following trials:

Trial on precision hematology: Comprehensive Genomic Profiling and Next Generation Functional Drug Screening for Patients With Aggressive Haematological Malignancies (EXALT-2); ClinicalTrials.

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Highlights from the SWG

The European Scientific foundation for Laboratory Hemato Oncology (ESLHO), together with the three scientific consortia of EuroClonality, EuroMRD, and EuroFlow, share the same four goals:

Research and innovation of diagnostic patient care
Standardization of laboratory diagnostics
Quality assessment
Education
ESLHO supports the three consortia in…

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Turning thoughts into reality

Turning thoughts into reality
By Dr Adi Zoref (@ZorefAdi)

I am an Israeli physician, trained in internal medicine. During my residency rotation in hematology at Meir Medical Center, I met a patient who changed my life.

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

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.

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Publications

Robust scoring of selective drug responses method in Nature ProtocolsSWG members have published a method in Nature Protocols that allows robust scoring of selective drug responses for patient-tailored therapy selection.

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PRESS RELEASE: Cyprus Presidency promotes win-win on health and competitiveness

The report, “Building an Open Innovation ecosystem in Europe for healthcare”, will be launched at a press conference in the European Parliament in Brussels on 29 November, 2012.

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