March 2007 | Vol. 20 - Issue 1
33rd Meeting of Physicians, 23rd Meeting of the Nurses Group,
6th Meeting of the Data Management Group.
Lyon, France, 25th-28th March, 2007.
EBMT 1st Patients & Family Day: Lyon, France, 24th March, 2007
Many important Elections and Re-Elections will be held throughout the meeting in Lyon. Please click here to view candidate profiles.
Votes may be cast at the EBMT stand from 12.00hrs on Sunday 25th March until 19.00hrs on Tuesday 27th March and the results will be announced at the General Assembly Meeting from 08.00 – 09.00hrs on Wednesday 28th March.
Please note that there may only be one vote per centre. If no representative from your CIC will be present in Lyon to vote please show your centre's support by faxing the voting slip to the Secretariat Office: +34.93.453.1263.
This should be signed by the Principal Investigator of your centre and should reach the Secretariat no later than 12.00 hrs on Thursday 22nd March. Please note that email votes cannot be accepted.
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With this letter I would like to inform you about the progress we have made over the last year and our visions for the months to come. After the very successful annual EBMT meeting in Hamburg, a strategy meeting was held in April in Frankfurt...
For the 33rd Annual Meeting of the EBMT, the 23rd Annual Meeting of the EBMT Nurses Group and the 6th Annual Meeting of the EBMT Data Management Group, we are pleased and honoured to invite you to join us for the EBMT 2007 Congress to be held in Lyon, France on the 25th – 28th March 2007...
ALWP - Research in the field of haematopoietic transplant for acute leukaemia is an expanding subject with several new areas, which deserve specific attention. Among its objectives, ALWP has to recognise new strategies of transplant and promote focused investigation. Vanderson Rocha reports on the introduction of a new Sub Committee structure for thematic investigation within the ALWP... (click here)
CLWP - The MMVAR trial (Multiple Myeloma Velcade At Relapse) is an EBMT sponsored, randomised, prospective study, comparing thalidomide + dexamethasone versus bortezomib (velcade) + thalidomide + dexamethasone for the treatment of multiple myeloma patients progressing or relapsing after autologous transplantation....(click here)
Following 11th September Twin Tower terrorist action in New York, concern has been raised in the world-wide media relating to other forms of terrorism, including the possibility of the release of radioactive material from an explosion in a nuclear power station. The EBMT Nuclear Accident Committee present their proposal on the Care of Radiation Sickness Casualties in Europe and the role that EBMT centres have to play in this important initiative...
Some time ago, the EBMT Board agreed to centralise the routine registry work in one office. It was the aim to separate the routine registry data management (non-research specific) from the retrospective studies. Carmen Ruiz reports on the recent centralisation to the Paris Office and we are pleased to present a Who's Who in Paris...
Over 100 applications have been registered with JACIE since January 2004. 35 centres have been accredited and a number are expected to complete their corrective actions in the near future. The full list of centres is available at ...
Looking forward to the launch of the CLINT project to support the development of the infrastructure for managing international clinical trials. A review of the success of the EUROCET project and the future of the EUROCET Registry...
The EBMT conference in Lyon 2007 is fast approaching – many of you are in the process of developing the presentation that you will be giving, preparing the slides and thinking about how to compress what you want to see into the allocated time-frame! Others of you are discussing ideas for your posters ...
This year sees elections for the Solid Tumours Working Party. Find out about our two candidates before casting your vote...
With 3 years already successfully completed, read about the progress these candidates have made and the plans they have for their second terms in the post....
The run-up to the EBMT Annual Meeting is always a busy time for all of the EBMT Co-ordination offices. This year’s meeting in Lyon looks set to be a huge success and we would like to thank the EBMT 2007 Local Organising Committee...
Roland was a pioneer and inspirational leader in the field of primary immunodeficiency. Although originally from South Africa, Roland spent his adult life in the UK, 26 years of it at the Institute of Child Health (ICH) and Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOS) in London...
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