Issue Nº3 / 2006


EBMT Website Bulletin


Dear EBMT Member,

I am pleased to send you the latest website bulletin, full of post-Congress news and highlighting recent additions to the website.

If you have any difficulty accessing any of the documents, or need a reminder of your password do not hesitate to let me know.

Sara Notley
EBMT Secretariat
admin@ebmt.org


Annual Meetings
Annual Reports
 





 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 










. Fellowship Programme
List of Host Centres for EBMT AMGEN Fellowship Programme
 


In February EBMT announced plans for a Clinical Fellowship Programme. Thanks to the generous financial backing of AMGEN, the programme will offer six clinical research fellowships aimed at promoting clinical and epidemiological research in the field of hemato-oncology during the period 2006 - 2008.

We are pleased to advise that 29 centres from 11 different countries have so far confirmed their willingness to host an EBMT AMGEN Fellow and a list of these centres and contact persons can be found in the Outreach & Education section of the website under Fellowship Programme.

Two fellowships will be awarded in 2006 and young physicians meeting the eligibility criteria are invited to submit an application before the 30 June deadline. Notification of awards will be made at the end of September and fellowships must commence within 6 months of the award date.

All applications should be supported by a host institution, therefore should you be interested in applying for a fellowship please contact any institutions listed of interest to you in order to discuss project proposals.

Full details on the selection and application process are included on the website. Please send the application form and supporting documentation by post or email to:

  


Fiona Mc Donald
EBMT Secretariat
Dept of Hematology
Hospital Clinic
Villarroel 170
Barcelona 08036
SPAIN


Email: fellowships@ebmt.org
Tel: +34 93 454 9543
Fax: +34 93 453 1263
  
For more info click here
. 2006 Elections
2006 Election results and New Board Members
 


During the EBMT Congress in Hamburg elections were held for the positions of Chronic Leukaemias Working Party Chair and Late Effects Working Party Chair.

Congratulations are due to the successful candidates Theo de Witte and André Tichelli. The Board would like to thank Mutlu Arat and Cesare Guglielmi for having presented their candidacy and greatly appreciate their willingness to serve the EBMT.

A full breakdown of results can be found along with candidate profiles of the incoming officers on EBMT website here.

Dietger Niederweiser has now taken office as EBMT President and we wish him a successful term in office. We would also like once more to extend our gratitude to Jane Apperley, EBMT President 2002-2006, for her tremendous dedication and input into the Society.

Contact details for all new Board Members can be found in the Directory section of the website.


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. Annual Meetings
General Assembly Meeting
 


EBMT 2006
The minutes of the General Assembly Meeting, together with the slides presented in Hamburg, can be consulted in the Related Meetings section of the website under Annual Meetings: future and past.

A selection of photos has also been uploaded to reflect the main events of EBMT 2006. Many thanks and congratulations are due to Norbert Schmitz and the Local Organising Committee in Hamburg for the quality and success of the meeting.

EBMT 2007
The First Announcement for EBMT 2007 in Lyon can be downloaded at the following link: Annual Meeting: 25th - 28th March and the presentation given by Congress President Mauricette Michallet may be seen here.

We are also pleased to announce that the 2007 Congress website is now active and invite you to consult the website on a regular basis for the latest congress news.


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. Annual Reports
EBMT Annual Reports in the Operations Manual
 


A new heading has been added to the EBMT Operational Manual, called Annual Reports. You will find pdf copies of:

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. Membership
Updated Membership Pages
 


The Membership pages have been updated to reflect the changes in membership proposed at the General Assembly Meeting in Prague on 23 March 2005. Full membership and Associate membership is now related to the data reported by a centre to the EBMT, as opposed to geographical location. The membership forms have been revised accordingly.

The EBMT byelaws have also been revised to reflect these changes and the updated version, circulated to members in advance of the General Assembly meeting in Hamburg for comment, has been added to the Operations Manual on the website.

  
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. Registry News
Changes made to the Registry section of the website
 


New documentation has been added to the Registry section of the website.

MED-AB forms section:

  • A brand new MED-B form: Amyloidosis
  • Minor updates to most MED-AB forms in Jan/Feb 2006
  • MED-AB manual (updated in March 2006. MED-A definitions have been incorporated into a complete MED-AB manual.)

ProMISe documentation:

  • User Guide to ProMISe 2 (updated in March 2006. Further revisions to follow shortly)
  • Documents from EBMT 2006 Training Sessions (Sample data entry forms and handouts on data retrieval)

CIBMTR data share:

  • The EBMT has an agreement with the CIBMTR to transfer MED-A and MED-A follow up so that you only have to submit this data once. The consent form may be downloaded here
  

A copy of the minutes taken at the Registry Subcommittee Meeting on 19th March 2006 in Hamburg is available for consultation here.

 
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. Working Parties
Changes to the WP website pages
 


Following the Working Party meetings in Hamburg a number of additions have been made to the WP sections of the website:

Aplastic Anaemia Working Party (AAWP)

  • Slides of the Chairman's Report, given during the Aplastic Anaemia Working Party Session on Tuesday 21st March, 16.30-18.00 in Hamburg, Germany have been added to the Meetings section of the AAWP pages.

  • A pdf copy of the AAWP General Meeting minutes have been made available for EBMT members, which discuss current trials, proposed studies, future publications and other general issues.

  • The AAWP membership list has also been updated.

Acute Leukaemia Working Party (ALWP)

  • The following 2 publications have been added on to the Publications section of the ALWP pages:
    "Umbilical cord blood for transplantation in adults"
    and

    "    Comparative outcome of reduced intensity and myeloablative conditioning regimen in HLA identical sibling allogeneic haematopoietic stem cell transplantation for patients older than 50 years of age with acute myeloblastic leukaemia    ".

Autoimmune Diseases Working Party (ADWP)

  • The minutes taken during the Autoimmune Diseases Working Party Business Meeting on 20th March 2006 in Hamburg can be found in the Meetings section of the ADWP pages.

Chronic Leukaemias Working Party (CLWP)

  • The last 11 articles to be published by the CLWP have been added on to the list of publications on the CLWP site.

Immunology Working Party (IWP)

  • The IWP had 15 articles published in 2005. You may consult and follow a direct link to pub-med for them in the publications section of the IWP site.

Inborn Errors Working Party (IEWP)

  • An extensive list of IEWP publications in 2005 can be seen listed in the IEWP pages of the website.

Late Effects Working Party (LEWP)

  • The LEWP have made available to all EBMT members the minutes taken at their Business Meeting during EBMT 2006 in Hamburg. These can be consulted in the Meetings section of the LEWP pages.

  • An updated list of LEWP studies has also been added as a pdf file, listing study title, PI, setting, project description, start date and next step.

    Lymphoma Working Party (LWP)
  • Slide presentations for the LWP General Meeting on 21st March 2006 in Hamburg have been added to the Meetings section of the LWP pages, including slides for the following studies:

    Retrospective:

    - Allogeneic transplantation in children with Hodgkin's disease

    - Autologous stem cell transplantation in angioimmunoblastic lymphoma

    - Autografting for follicular lymphoma. Long term follow-up

    - Outcome of non-myeloablative conditioning allogeneic stem cell transplantation in Hodgkin's Disease

    Prospective:

    - Randomised Study of Rituximab (Mabthera) in Patients with Relapsed Follicular Lymphoma Prior to High Dose Therapy as In Vivo Purging and to Maintain Remission Following High Dose Therapy

    - A Randomised Trial of BEAM Plus PBSCT Versus Single Agent High-Dose Therapy followed by BEAM Plus PBSCT in Patients with Replaced Hodgkin's Disease

    - Allogeneic Peripheral Blood Progenitor Cell Transplantation After Reduced Conditioning for Primary Refractory or Relapsed Hodgkin's Disease

  • Minutes and slide presentations for the LWP Business Meetings are also available, including the LWP Sub-committees proposal and LWP Educational Course due to take place on November 9th and 10th 2006 in Prague.

  • During EBMT 2006 the LWP formed a number of subcommittees, to focus on specific areas of work. A list of LWP subcommittees and corresponding contact person has been added to the LWP pages.

Paediatric Working Party (PDWP)

  • Slides from the PDWP Business Meeting during EBMT 2006 in Hamburg have been added to the Meetings section of the PDWP pages. Slides are also available for the Quality of EBMT Data presentation given by the PDWP at the Annual Meeting.

  • The PDWP will hold their next meeting in collaboration with the ALWP in Paris, France on Saturday November 4th 2006. A preliminary agenda is available for consultation.

    Solid Tumors Working Party (STWP)
  • The STWP have added two recent titles onto the list of publications on their site:

    - Salvage high-dose chemotherapy for children with extragonadal germ-cell tumours. Br J Cancer. 2005 Aug 22;93(4):412-7

    - High-dose chemotherapy with autologous haemopoietic support for advanced ovarian cancer in first complete remission: retrospective analysis from the Solid Tumour Registry of the European Group for Blood and Marrow Transplantation (EBMT). Bone Marrow Transplant. 2005 Jul;36(1):25-31
  
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. JACIE
JACIE sessions at EBMT Annual Meeting, Hamburg
 

The following slide presentations given during JACIE sessions and meetings at EBMT 2006 have been posted onto the latest news and events section of the JACIE website:

Poster sessions and abstracts relating to JACIE can also be found at this link.

JACIE Fees
As announced at the General Assembly meeting the fees for JACIE accreditation will be increased as of 1 July 2006. The background to the increase and new fee structure are set-out on the JACIE website: http://www.jacie.org/portal/jacie/about/


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. Statistical Subcommittee
Survey to access EBMT members statistical needs
 


In order to offer maximum statistical help to EBMT members the Statistical Subcommittee have posted a survey onto the EBMT Statistical Subcommittee section of the website asking members to define their needs for support in relation to the activities and expertise of the statistical subcommittee. Surveys should be returned to Myriam Labopin, Chair of the Statistical Subcommittee.
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. Clinical Trials
New Clinical Trials section of the website
 

As previously announced, a new clinical trials section has been added to the website, to allow members direct access to relevant information associated with clinical trials and prospective studies.

The page features a search facility, which will allow members to search the full EBMT trials database by Trial name, Working Party and Keywords.

An overview of this new facility was written by Kim Champion in the last edition of the EBMT News. Click here to read more.

 
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. Meetings
Forthcoming Meetings of Interest
 

A number of upcoming meetings have been added to the Related Meetings section of the website recently. We would also highlight the Tenth ESH-EBMT Training Course in HAEMOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION which will be held in Warsaw, Poland from 26 - 29 May 2006. A programme may be found under Joint ESH-EBMT Meetings.

International Workshop on Immune Mediated Marrow Failure
June 19-20, 2006, Naples, Italy
programme

Lodz Platelet Conference
June 25-28, 2006, Lodz, Poland
www.p.lodz.pl/plateletconference

ESH Euroconference on Translational Research in Transplantation: Immunogenetics, Pharmacogenomics, Proteomics and Immunobiology
July 4-6, 2006, Paris, France
www.esh.org

Development and Function of Secondary and Tertiary Lymphoid Tissues
September 4-5, 2006, Paris, France
http://www.pasteur.fr

4th EBMT Workshop " New perspectives in allogeneic transplantation of hematopoietic cells "
October 12-13, 2006, Milan, Italy
programme
For a full list of Meetings click here
. Job Board
Positions advertised on EBMT website
 


A number of opportunities have been sent to the Secretariat, to circulate amongst EBMT members. We have therefore created a new Job Board on the website, where you may consult posts vacant.

The most recent positions to be advertised are:

Experienced Researcher, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Period: 01/05/2006 - 31/07/2008
Targeted at: experienced researchers with 4 - 10 years experience (post-doc)

Early Stage Researcher: University of Regensburg, Germany
Period: 01/05/2006 - 31/12/2008
Targeted at: researchers at the beginning of their scientific career with 0-4 years of research experience

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