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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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Horizon 2020: The European Commission proposes the successor to Framework Programme 7

Horizons 2020 will pay “particular attention to ensuring a broad approach to innovation, which is not only limited to the development of new products and services on the basis of scientific and technological breakthroughs, but which also incorporates aspects such…

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Press Release "Crucial Directives must be revised to protect patients' interests and improve access to treatment"

This was a key message of a two-day conference, “Haematology and the next European decade”, hosted by the European Parliament and attended by doctors, researchers, parliamentarians, patients’ organisations and Commission officials.

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Press Release: Better funding for research into blood diseases will save more lives

“Haematology is probably the area of medicine that has progressed the most in recent years”, said Professor Robin Foà of “La Sapienza” University of Rome.

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Preanalytical WG

Responsibilities:
Reviewing SOPs for sample handling and storage to ensure uniformity across the consortium. Overseeing the logistics of sample collection. Defining the minimum (core markers) and extended panels for immunophenotyping. Establishing good practice sampling for retrospective analysis.

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Streamlining SoHO Management in EU Hospitals

The European Commission's Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety (DG SANTE) is committed to improving the management of Substances of Human Origin (SoHO) in EU hospitals.

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Publications

Immune-monitoring of myelodysplastic neoplasms: Recommendations from the i4MDS consortium
Cristina A. Tentori, Lin P. Zhao, Benedetta Tinterri, Kathryn E. Strange, Katharina Zoldan, Konstantinos Dimopoulos, Xingmin Feng, Elena Riva, Benjamin Lim, Yannick Simoni, Vidhya Murthy, Madeline J.

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Chairs and Members

ChairJane Apperley

Co-chairAndreas Hochhaus

Executive Board members (2021–2027 term)
Prof Nicholas CP Cross, University of Southampton (UK)
Prof Oliver Hantschel, University of Marburg (Germany)
Dr Delphine Rea, University of Paris (France)
Dr Katerina Machova Polakova, Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion, Prague; Charles University (Czech Republic)
Prof…

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SWG Educational Activities

EICMLThe 2023 EICML meeting took place in Naples in May 2023. Fifty-five physicians and scientists met at the Palazzo Alabardieri in central Naples to spend two days discussing emerging data and developing collaborations.

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Publications

Machado HE, Mitchell E, Øbro NF, Kübler K, Davies M, Leongamornlert D, Cull A, Maura F, Sanders MA, Cagan ATJ, McDonald C, Belmonte M, Shepherd MS, Vieira Braga FA, Osborne RJ, Mahbubani K, Martincorena I, Laurenti E, Green AR, Getz…

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