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Lymphoid malignancies dissected in Warsaw
The EHA–PTHiT Tutorial on Lymphoid Malignancies was held on March 17-18, 2017 in Warsaw, Poland. 96% of meeting attendees were satisfied with the tutorial saying that their expectations are met.
Read moreDaratumumab Shows Remarkable Benefit in Relapsed or Refractory Multiple Myeloma in the POLLUX Study
Daratumumab is a fully human monoclonal antibody that binds to a novel target on myeloma cells.
Read moreImmunotherapy delivered by Blinatumomab improves survival in acute lymphoblastic leukaemia patients
Adult patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) can achieve disease control in 90% of cases with intense chemotherapy but only half of these responders will be cured.
Read moreAdding 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.
Read moreAnnouncement: The award winners of the prestigious EHA-ASH Translational Research in Hematology Training Award are selected
The winners of the TRTH 2015 Awards are:
Name
Nationality
Name
Nationality
Ileana Antony-Debre
French
Jean-Baptiste Micol
French
Pavan Bachireddy
American
Christopher Ott
American
Lucile Couronné
French
Carsten Riether
German
Moniek de Witte
Dutch
Anindita Roy
British
Ammon Fager
American
Melody Smith
American
Gillian Horne
British
Zuzana Tothova
Slovakian
Moonjung Jung
South Korea
Marcin Wlodarski
Polish
Jonas Samuel Jutzi
Swiss - German
Yuh-Ying Yeh
Taiwanese
Milka Koupenova-Zamor
American - Bulgarian
Sasan Zandi
Iranian
Marwan Kwok
British
Patricia Maiso
Spain
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First Horizon 2020 Work Programme update – budget, and launch of FTI and innovation prizes
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Read moreMajor research funding calls are out now
First, the Innovative Medicines Initiative published its final call under the EU Seventh Framework Programme. Interestingly for hematologists, the call includes a project called ‘Blood-based biomarker assays for personalized tumour therapy: value of circulating biomarkers’.
Read morePomalidomide prolongs survival in refractory myeloma patients
MM-003 is a large, multi-centre phase 3 study that assessed the efficacy and safety of a new drug, Pomalidomide (POM) in combination with low-dose dexamethasone (POM+LoDex) and compared this combination with high dose dexamethasone in MM patients with late stage…
Read moreDaratumumab, a CD38 monoclonal antibody study in advanced multiple myeloma – an open-label, dose escalation followed by open-label extension in a single-arm phase I/II study
Daratumumab is a human CD38 monoclonal antibody being tested against multiple myeloma, but it could also have potential in a broad range of other hematological diseases.
Read morePress Release: “Building the knowledge economy in the world of blood diseases: patients, professionals and Parliamentarians help make the new Europe.”
Brussels, 29th August 2011
On the 30th & 31st of August a conference will be hosted in the European Parliament that will demonstrate the leading role haematology will have in securing the future knowledge economy envisaged in the Europe 2020 Strategy.…