• EBMT Honorary Membership 2008
• EBMT AMGEN Fellowship Award 2008.
  ESH-EBMT Revised Edition Handbook Launch
• EBMT Training Courses

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EBMT General Assembly Meeting 2008

Rainer Storb MD.

EBMT Honorary Membership 2008

We are pleased to announce that this year's EBMT Honorary Membership award will go to Dr. Rainer Storb for his pioneering work in less toxic forms of allogeneic marrow and blood stem cell transplants for malignant and non-malignant blood diseases.

The award will be made at the Official Opening Session of EBMT 2008 on Sunday 30th March between 18:30-20:00.

Dr. Storb has also been invited to give a special lunchtime session on the ‘Past, present and future of haematopoietic stem cell transplantation’ which will take place on Tuesday 1st April at 12:30-13:15 in Hall E.

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EBMT-AMGEN Fellowship Awards 2008

It is a pleasure to be able to make two fellowship awards this year. The recipients will be:

Haefaa Achalby for the project entitled:

‘Detection of minimal residual disease after nonmyeloablative haematopoietic stem cell transplantation in myelofibrosis by a highly sensitive PCR assay of JAK2V617F or MPLW515L/K’.
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Haefaa Achalby will be hosted by Prof. Dr. Nicolaus Kröger at the University Hospital Eppendorf Bone Marrow Transplantation Centrein Hamburg, Germany.

Mieke Aldenhoven for her project entitled:

‘International multi-centre study evaluating the long term outcome of successful stem cell transplantation in Hurler syndrome patients.’

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Mieke will be hosted by Robert Wynn at the Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital, Manchester, United Kingdom.

The awards will be made at the Official Opening Session of EBMT 2008 on Sunday 30th March between 18:30-20:00 by Dietger Niederwieser, President of the EBMT and Mary Ullenhopp, Senior Manager. Advocacy and Ally Development, on behalf of AMGEN.

The EBMT would like to take this opportunity to congratulate the recipients for the high calibre of their applications and the host institutions for supporting the EBMT-AMGEN fellowship programme. We wish both parties the very best of luck with their research activities!

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ESH - EBMT Handbook Launch

We are pleased to announce the launch of the 5th edition of the highly popular ESH EBMT Handbook. 50,000 copies of previous edition are currently in circulation and the new edition is eagerly awaited by transplant practitioners worldwide.

The handbook aims to provide a practical guide to this complex but fascinating field of medicine and an instrument for use in daily practice.

EBMT members and delegates attending the EBMT 2008 meeting in Florence will be privileged to receive the first copies of the new edition. In order to receive your copy you will be given a redeemable voucher together with your registration pack. Please visit the ESH stand (nº 413) in the exhibition area of Fortezza da Basso during EBMT 2008 from 30th March – 2nd April 2008 to exchange this voucher for ONE free copy of the new publication.

Congratulations to ESH, the EBMT Education Committee and all the authors for all their hard work!

ESH and EBMT would like to thank Chugai sanofi-aventis for supporting the ESH-EBMT handbook with an unrestricted educational grant.

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