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Welcome to the family! Get to know the Young EHA Committee and learn how you can make a difference.
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Meet the Young EHA committee members
Nuno Borges, MBBS MRes (Chair)
Role: Physician
Training/work: Portugal and UK (currently)
Interests: Improving member engagement with YoungEHA and promoting opportunities for international cooperation.
Alba Maiques-Diaz, PhD (Vice Chair)
Role: Basic and translational scientist
Training/work: Spain
Interests: Empowering YoungEHA women and helping to expand their careers.
Franziska Auer, PhD
Role: Biomedical scientist
Training/work: USA and Germany
Interests: Dr. Auer specializes on the identification of genetic predisposition to pediatric cancer, with a specific focus on PAX5 and B-cell leukemia. Her expertise includes CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing and murine in vivo models.
Anna Avagyan, MD
Role: Physician
Training/work: Armenia
Interests: Building a robust community of young hematologists from Europe and beyond; facilitating the career paths of young pediatric hematologists; improving medical education and healthcare in regions with limited resources to meet European standards; supporting young scientists interested in clinical research.
Côme Bommier, MD
Role: Physician-scientist
Training/work: France
Interests: Fostering connections between EHA and residents or early career physicians-scientists in France."
Lorenzo Brunetti, MD PhD
Role: Physician scientist
Training/work: Italy
Interests: Boosting connections between young hematologists and EHA.
Eleni Gavriilaki, MD PhD
Role: Physician scientist
Training/work: Greece (currently) and USA
Interests: Collaboration with national and international societies, expanding research and clinical networks with other specialties or scientists (computing, mechanics, physchology)
Ruxandra Irimia, MD
Role: Physician
Training/work: Romania (currently), USA
Interests: career development opportunities (mentoring, training); strengthening the connections between YoungEHA and the local national hematology associations.
Rafal Machowicz, MD, PhD, MSc
Role: Physician scientist
Training/work: Poland (currently) and USA, France, Germany
Interests: Helping others to see the beauty of hematology. Bridging between scientists from different backgrounds for better research. Sparking students' interest in hematology.
Pedro Moura, PhD
Role: Biomedical scientist
Training/work: UK and Sweden (currently)
Interests: My research line focuses on investigating RNA and protein biology in the context of splice factor-mutant early hematopoiesis and stem cell biology.
Rhiannon Newman, MSc
Role: PhD researcher, basic and translational scientist researching into personalised medicines for AML patients.
Training/work: Finland
Interests: My research line focuses on investigating RNA and protein biology in the context of splice factor-mutant early hematopoiesis and stem cell biology.
Marlies Vanden Bempt, PhD
Role: Biomedical scientist
Training/work: UK and Belgium
Interests: Marlies loves to present her scientific results to the scientific community, but she is equally interested in bringing science into the lives of young and old non-scientists.
Carlo Zaninetti, MD PhD
Role: Physician scientist
Training/work: Germany (currently) and Italy
Interests: Scientific cooperation and networking in the field of non-oncologic hematology.
Meet the Young EHA committee ambassadors
Stefan Bjelosevic, PhD
Role: Postdoctoral Fellow (Basic/translational scientist)
Training/work: Australia
Interests: Fostering greater collaboration between haematology professionals in Europe and Australia (basic/translational scientists and clinicians).
Côme Bommier, MD
Role: Physician-scientist
Training/work: France
Interests: Fostering connections between EHA and residents or early career physicians-scientists in France."
Ana Zelić Kerep, MD, PhD candidate
Role: hematology resident
Training/work: Croatia and USA
Interests: Creating and boosting community, raising awareness about important work-life balance topics
Karina Tozatto Maio, MD PhD
Role: Physician
Training/work: Brazil (currently) and France
Interests: Bring YoungEHA and national societies together to establish strong scientific collaborations.
Elmira Vagapova
Role: PhD student
Training/work: Russia
Interests: science communication, fellowships for early career scientists, mentoring programs, improving knowledge of students and young scientists in conferences, professional organizations and career opportunities
Sebastian Vosberg, PhD
Role: Basic and translational scientist
Training/work: Germany and Austria (currently)
Interests: Promoting interdisciplinarity: giving young hematologists an understanding of bioinformatics and vice versa to bridge gaps between these areas.
Koray Yalçın, MD
Role: Physician scientist
Training/work: Türkiye (currently) and Germany
Interests: Take a role for building a strong connection between YoungEHA and all national societies. Encouraging young hematologists to be a part of EHA.
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