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SWG Education Activities

Session at EHA2023The EHA2023 Congress was held in Frankfurt in June 2023. During the event, we held a session with the EHA Adolescent and Young Adult (AYA) Taskforce on the treatment of AYA patients with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL).

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Tackling Sickle Cell Disease: the need for a European approach

Elvie Ingoli, president of the German association of SCD and thalassemia patients, at the 7th EAPM Presidency Conference in Brussels. Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) is relatively new to many parts of Europe.

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Highlights from the SWG

Project groupsPan-European Transfusion Research infrAstructure (PETRA) projectThe European Blood Alliance has provided funding for a health science data project entitled: ‘Towards a Pan-European Transfusion Research infrAstructure (PETRA).

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EHA-SWG Scientific Meeting on Pediatric Hematology 2022

On April 7-9, 2022 the EHA-SWG Scientific Meeting on Pediatric Hematology was successfully held at the NH Collection Vittorio Veneto hotel in Rome.

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Press Release: News on Red Cells and Iron presented at the 18th Congress of the European Hematology Asscociation in Stockholm June 13-16, 2013

Recent evidence suggests that these congenital anaemias are caused by molecular abnormalities in the transport of iron and other molecules and a deeper understanding of these mechanisms may lead to a better knowledge of the normal development of the red…

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Selected EMA news

November 2024New medicines recommended for approval
Eltrombopag Viatris (eltrombopag) – generic
Treatment of primary immune thrombocytopenia and thrombocytopenia associated with chronic hepatitis C (disease in which patients have low levels of blood platelets)

Alhemo (concizumab)
Prevention of bleeding in patients with hemophilia A…

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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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EHA-KCS Hematology Tutorial on Lymphoma and Multiple Myeloma

Dates: March 14-16, 2019
Location: Almaty, Kazakhstan
Chairs: G Gaidano, D Kaidarova
Co-chairs: S Gabbasova, B Afanasyev 

This meeting will be held in English and offer a simultaneous translation to Russian.

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EHA-ISHBT Hematology Tutorial

Date: March 1-3, 2024
Format: In-Person
Location: Hyderabad, India

Chairs: P. K.

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