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European Affairs Committee

Committee members
Elizabeth Macintyre, France (Chair)
Antonio Almeida, Portugal
Natacha Bolaños, Spain (Patient advocate)
Lorenzo Brunetti, Italy
Raffaella Colombatti, Italy
Julio Delgado, Spain
Isabelle Durand-Zaleski, France (Advisory member)
Tarec El-Galaly, Denmark
Martin Kaiser, Germany
Frank Leebeek, The Netherlands (Advisory member)
Kate Morgan, United Kingdom (Patient advocate)
Marek Mraz, Czech Republic
Kostas Stamatopoulos, Greece
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Meeting Program

The online program planner is available here. For a downloadable (and printable) PDF version of the program, click here.  

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European registry on inherited platelet disorders project, February 2025

A project update from Prof Paolo Gresele. We successfully completed the CRF harmonization phase and are now in the process of finalizing and launching the registry platform.

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Substances of Human Origin (SoHO) legislation

EHA’s involvementEHA has been involved in both the evaluation and subsequent revision of the EU legislation on human blood and blood components. The evaluation of these rules, which dated back to 2002, began in 2016.

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Press release: 18th Congress of the European Hematology Association in Stockholm, Sweden June 13-16-2013

The EHA-theme of the year, from June 2013 to June 2014, is dedicated to “Age and Aging in blood disorders”.

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Reduction of chemotherapy and PET-guided radiotherapy in advanced-stage Hodgkin lymphoma: the GHSG HD15 trial

Using the multi-agent chemotherapy regimen BEACOPP the GHSG demonstrated significantly better tumor control and overall survival compared to previously used regimens. In addition, the need for radiotherapy in patients with advanced stage Hodgkin lymphoma has been unclear.

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Selected EMA news

February 2025New medicines recommended for approval
Dyrupeg (pegfilgrastim) – biosimilar
Treatment to shorten the duration of neutropenia and help prevent febrile neutropenia after cytotoxic chemotherapy

Eltrombopag Accord (eltrombopag) – generic
Treatment of primary immune thrombocytopenia and thrombocytopenia associated with chronic hepatitis C
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Turkey tutorial focused on lymphoma

The 8th EHA-TSH Hematology Tutorial was held on April 6-7, 2019 in Izmir, Turkey. This marks yet another pleasant and fruitful collaboration between EHA and the Turkish Society of Hematology.

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