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SWG Educational Activities
MeetingsSWG meetingsThe SWG on Transfusions holds monthly meetings. EHA CongressOne focus is support for all activities of the EHA Congress. At the EHA 2023 Congress, which was held in Frankfurt, some sessions on transfusion were supported virtually.
Read moreChairs and Members
The EHA SWG commenced in 2020, but initial work was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We therefore started in 2021, in preparation for a (successful) SWG meeting in 2022.
Read moreEHA Guidelines on Recommendations for Pregnancy in Rare Inherited Anemias
EHA and the Scientific Working Group on Red Cells and Iron organized the first online workshop on the EHA Guidelines: “Recommendations for Pregnancy in Rare Inherited Anemias”.
Read moreEuropean Board for Accreditation in Hematology
Current committee members
Peter van den Burg, The Netherlands (Chair and ISBT representative—transfusion medicine)
Michelle Kenyon, United Kingdom (EBMT Nurses Group representative—Specialized Hematology Professional)
Fionnuala Ní Áinle, Ireland (ISTH representative—thrombosis and hemostasis)
Annalisa Ruggeri, Italy (Representative, clinical hematology)
Isabel Sanchez-Ortega, Spain (EBMT representative)
Ana Filipa Marques…
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Read moreTransfusion
The aim of this SWG is to strengthen and invigorate European research in transfusion, to foster new networks and collaborations, with the ultimate goal of optomisingtransfusion practice in Europe based on scientific evidence.
Read moreSubstances 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.
Read moreChairs and Members
Chair
Claire Harrison, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, Guy’s Hospital, London (United Kingdom)
Co-chair
Jean-Jacques Kiladjian, Hôpital Saint-Louis and Paris Diderot University, Paris (France)
SWG Steering Committee members
Alessandro Vannucchi, University of Florence (Italy)
Antonio Almeida, Hospital da Luz (Portugal)
Carlos Besses, Barcelona Biomedical Research…
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…