Chairperson
Vanderson Rocha
vanderson.rocha@sls.ap-hop-paris.fr

The period of inclusion for the ALWP REGISTRATION STUDY has been extended until December 2006. This study aims to evaluate the contribution of different strategies of treatment (HLA-identical siblings and other treatments including alternative stem cell transplant) for children and adult patients with Acute Leukaemia. New registrations forms for both Adults and Children can be downloaded in the prospective studies section, or following the link in blue text above.

The list of ALWP publications has been updated to include all articles accepted for print over the past 24 months. Direct links to Pub-Med have also been incorporated to the list of ALWP articles listed that have been printed over the last 5 years.

You can now also view the last 'ALWP Update' written by the WP Chair for the March 2005 edition of the EBMT News.

Joint LEWP & AAWP Meeting
2nd & 3rd November 2005
Rome, Italy

Minutes from the last AAWP Business Meeting, held during the 2005 EBMT Congress in Prague may also be downloaded from this section of the EBMT website, or by clicking below.

To see the slides from the Aplastic Anaemia Registry presented during EBMT 2005, that show statistics of Modern BMT in SAA and whether established risk factors still play a role, please click here or visit the Registry section of the EBMT website.

Please note that these slides are password protected. Should you have any queries regarding your password please contact the EBMT Secretariat.

Chairperson
Riccardo Saccardi
r.saccardi@dac.unifi.it

The list of ADWP studies had been updated, in particular details regarding the following trials:

The 2 most recent ADWP publications listed below have been added to the WP list of publications, where direct links to Pub-Med have also now been added, to help facilitate access to them:

'Haematopoietic stem cell transplantation in the treatment of severe autoimmune disease: results from phase I/II studies, prospective randomized trials and future directions' (July 2005)
and
'Autologous Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation for Autoimmune Diseases' (May 2005)

You can now also view the last 'ADWP Update' written by the WP Chair for the July 2005 and November 2003 editions of the EBMT News.

The next ADWP Meeting will be held during EBMT 2006 on March 19 in Hamburg. The ADWP would also like to draw your attention to the following meeting:

An International Symposium on Cellular Therapy for Autoimmune Disease
Newport Beach, CA - October 5th-7th 2005
http://www.cityofhope.org/cme/

Details of similar meetings can also be found listed in the Meetings section of their website.

Chairperson
Dietger Niederweiser
dietger@medizin.uni-leipzig.de

The CLWP have just held their last Meeting in Warsaw, Poland on September 15th and 16th 2005. A full agenda for the Meeting can be found in the CLWP Meetings section, along with details regarding past gatherings.

PROSPECTIVE CLINICAL TRIALS

The CLWP wrote a brief update on their MMVAR trial for the EBMT News. These and future updates can be found in the clinical trials section of the website.

Each of the CLWP trials listed on the prosective clinical trails page provides a link to further information about the trial and to relevant protocols and documentation.

RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES

A full list of retrospective studies has also been added to the website.

CLWP publications dating back to 2000 are now easy to source via direct links to Pub-Med that have now been added to this section of the EBMT website.

The last 'CLWP Update' written by the WP Chair for the November 2004 edition of the EBMT News can also be downloaded from the CLWP publications section.

Chronic Leukaemias Registry slides, presented at EBMT 2005 have been uploaded onto the Registry section of the website and contain information concerning:

CML: relapse after 1st allo-sct: survival by period of relapse, survival by disease phase at transplant, survival by period of DLI, survival by stage of period of DLI, etc

CLL: Subcommittee activities & EBMT auto-protocol MDS: HLA-id. sibling transplants in MDS/sAML, Matched Unrelated transplants in MDS/sAML

MM: Multiple Myeloma: Relapse Risk According to Tumor Cell Content, Overview all transplants, autologous and allogeneic (period 1992-2003), Relapse/Progression - Donor Gender Study

Please click below to view these slides, or consult the Registry section of the EBMT website. Please note that these slides are password protected. Should you have any queries regarding your password please contact the EBMT Secretariat.

Chairperson
Alejandro Madrigal
madrigal@rfc.ucl.ac.uk

'Engraftment kinetics of human CD34+ cells from cord blood and mobilized peripheral blood co-transplanted into NOD/SCID mice'

The latest publication (above) from the IWP to appear in BMT this year has now been added to the IWP publications section, in addition to direct links for each of the IWP articles published since 2000 to Pub-Med.

You can now also download the last 'IWP Update', which offers a full report of the 'Allostem' project by IWP Chair, Alejandro Madrigal in the July 2004 edition of the EBMT News.

In order to bring together the active groups working within the IWP there will be 3 meetings linked to the IWP taking place in Autumn 2005:

September
Vaccine-Immunotherapy Meeting ( Spain)
Mini-Workshop: Immunotherapy in CMV and Gvl (UK)

October
Joint AlloStem-IWP Workshop(Germany)

Details of the AlloStem project, funded by the European Commission and led by Professor Alejandro Madrigal can be read by clicking the link below.

Chairperson
Marina Cavazzana-Calvo
m.cavazzana@nck.ap-hop-paris.fr

The IEWP Chair would like to encourage all EBMT members to attend the forthcoming IEWP Meeting:

Inborn Errors Working Party Meeting
23-25 September 2005
Utrecht, The Netherlands

A full programme, registration details and a map of Utrecht with directions to the meeting venue can be downloaded from the IEWP Meetings section of the website.

The list of studies being carried out by the IEWP has been updated and can be consulted in their studies section.

'Improved survival after unrelated donor bone marrow transplant in children with primary immunodeficiency using a redused intensity conditioning regimen'

The above article was published on behalf of the IEWP in Blood earlier this year. A direct link to Pub Med for this article and other IEWP publications can be found in the IEWP publications list.

The last 'IEWP Update' written by the WP Chair for the July 2004 edition of the EBMT News can also be downloaded here