YoungEHA at EHA25 Virtual

Click here, to hear from some of the YoungEHA Committee Members, on what you can expect to learn from the 4th YoungEHA Research Meeting, and the special YoungEHA sessions at EHA25 Virtual!

Name:  Heiko Becker, MD (current chair)

Role: Physician scientist

Training/work: Germany (currently) and USA

Interests: Career development opportunities (grants, TRTH, CRTH), strengthening and expanding activities for pre-career and early career scientists and physicians in hematology.

Name: Elina Beleva, MD, PhD

Role: Physician scientist

Training/work: Bulgaria

Interests: Motivated to foster cross-region collaboration and integration.

Name:  Nuno Borges, MBBS MRes (member)

Role: Physician

Training/work: Portugal and UK (currently)

Interests: Improving member engagement with YoungEHA and promoting opportunities for international cooperation.

Name: Lorenzo Brunetti, MD PhD (member)

Role: Physician scientist

Training/work: Italy

Interests: Boosting connections between young hematologists and EHA.

Name:  Ann-Kathrin Eisfeld, MD (ambassador)

Role: Physician scientist

Training/work: Germany and USA (currently)

Interests: Fostering connections between EHA and the US including transitioning between both places, supporting physician-scientists with focus on research-heavy careers (“80/20”), expanding EHA to High School students, to enable an early connection of young talents to EHA including development of a summer research program.

Name: Verena I. Gaidzik, MD (member, former chair)

Role: physician scientist

Training/work: Germany

Interests: Supporting and encouraging young hematologists and researchers to follow their ideas and to achieve their goals.

Name: Anna Kabanova, PhD (member)

Role: Basic and translational  scientist

Training/work: Switzerland and Italy (currently)

Interests: Creating more connections between biologists and clinical hematologists.

Name: Mandy N. Lauw, MD PhD (member)

Role: Physician scientist

Training/work: The Netherlands (currently) and Canada

Interests: Optimizing opportunities and networks for early career professionals in EHA whilst ensuring equal engagement of young basic and clinical scientists in both malignant and benign hematology.

Name:  Fabienne Lucas, MD PhD (ambassador)

Role: Physician scientist

Training/work: Germany and UK (training), USA (currently)

Interests: Communications, new media, YoungEHA website.

Name: Alba Maiques-Diaz, PhD (member)

Role: Basic and translational scientist

Training/work: Spain

Interests: Empowering YoungEHA women and helping to expand their careers.

Name:  Marek Mraz, MSc MD PhD (member)

Role: Basic and translational scientist

Training/work: USA (training) and Czech Republic (currently)

Interests: Helping early career scientists interested in basic and translational research in hematology, and encouraging young people to engage in EHA activities.

Name:  Christian Scharenberg, MD PhD (member)

Role: Physician scientist

Training/work: Germany, USA and Sweden (currently)

Interests: Fostering the interaction and cooperation of young physician-scientists and basic researchers at the European level, develop a trainee day at the annual congress, career development (TRTH, CRTH).

Name:  Basile Stamatopoulos, PhD (member)

Role: Basic and translational scientist

Training/work: Belgium

Interests: Establishing contact between young scientists and hematologists in order to increase international collaborations at a European level.