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HARMONY Alliance: Progress in Using Big Data Technology to Achieve Better Outcomes for Patients with Blood Cancers

HARMONY Alliance: Progress in Using Big Data Technology to Achieve Better Outcomes for Patients with Blood Cancers: HARMONY Alliance is an unparalleled medicine offensive to battle blood cancers by using Big Data analyses.

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Last chance: special EAPM2017 registration offer for EHA members

EAMP2017 will take place in Belfast, Ireland, from 27-29 November 2017.  The European Alliance for Personalised Medicine (EAPM), launched in March 2012, brings together European healthcare experts and patient advocates involved with major chronic diseases.

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PROFILE Bootcamp in Entrepreneurial Innovation in Orphan Diseases, October 23-25, 2017, Leuven, Belgium.

Breaking innovations in rare diseases are at the centre of this PROFILE Bootcamp, which brings together junior & senior researchers, clinicians, pharmaceutical industry and policymakers.

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A brand new EHA website!

You may already have noticed the new EHA look & feel.  We are proud to share it with you already.  We are currently migrating all our pages and related information.

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European Reference Networks, a unique opportunity to take collaboration and patient care in hematology to the next level, was a core topic at EHA 2016

On Saturday 11 June, a session in the Patient Advocacy Track focused on the emerging European Reference Networks (ERNs).

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A new targeted combination therapy with potential to eliminate relapsed chronic lymphocytic leukemia

Patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) that has recurred or isn’t responding to standard treatment need new therapies. A new combination of two targeted therapies is showing potential to eliminate CLL in these circumstances.

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Treatment and survival of patients with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) in Europe

Since the introduction of tyrosine kinase inhibitors into the treatment of CML survival times have greatly improved.

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

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.

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New GFI1B variants in bleeding and platelet disorders

Platelets restrict blood loss upon vessel damage by formation of a clot (thrombus). Recently, we reported a family with a bleeding and platelet disorder (BPD), which was caused by a defect in the gene GFI1B1.

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