Awards at the 50th Annual Meeting of the EBMT

OPENING CEREMONY

HONORARY MEMBERS: Arnon Nagler and Jane Apperley

CLINICAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD: Achilles Anagnostopoulos and Anne Parker

DISTINGUISHED MERIT AWARD: Helen Baldomero and Jakob Passweg

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EBMT PHYSICIANS AWARDS

VAN BEKKUM AWARD to Leslie Kean (United States) for the abstract LARGE-SCALE TCR DEEP SEQUENCING REVEALS A T CELL DIVERSITY BOTTLENECK WITH POST-TRANSPLANT CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE WITH IMPLICATIONS FOR EFFICACY AND TOXICITY: RESULTS OF THE BMT-CTN 1801 STUDY

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BASIC SCIENCE AWARD to Haroon Shaikh (Germany) for the abstract LYMPH NODE BLOOD ENDOTHELIAL CELLS PRIME ALLOREACTIVE CD4+ T CELLS IN ACUTE GRAFT-VERSUS-HOST DISEASE INITIATION

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JIAN-JIAN LUAN AWARD FOR LYMPHOMA TRANSPLANT RESEARCH to Nora Liebers (Germany) for the abstract A PROPENSITY SCORE-MATCHED ANALYSIS ON OUTCOMES OF BREXUCABTAGENE AUTOLEUCEL FROM ZUMA-2 AND ALLOGENEIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION FROM EBMT DATABASE IN RELAPSED/REFRACTORY POST-BTKI MANTLE CELL LYMPHOMA

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JON J. VAN ROOD AWARD to Francesca Del Bufalo (Italy) for the paper GD2-CART01 for Relapsed or Refractory High-Risk Neuroblastoma

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JON J. VAN ROOD AWARD to Gabriele Casirati (United States) for the paper Epitope editing enables targeted immunotherapy of acute myeloid leukaemia

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DIETRICH NIETHAMMER AWARD to Francesca Del Bufalo (Italy) for the presentation titled: CAR-T cells for relapsed or refractory neuroblastoma – a hype or hope? 

DIETRICH NIETHAMMER AWARD to Robert Chiesa (United Kingdom) for the presentation titled: Base edited CD7 CAR-T cell therapy in relapsed T-ALL

BEST YOUNG ABSTRACTS

11 BEST YOUNG ABSTRACT AWARDS

1. Nico Gagelmann (Germany) - DARATUMUMAB FOR PURE RED CELL APLASIA AFTER HEMATOPOIETIC CELL TRANSPLANTATION: A STUDY FROM THE TRANSPLANT COMPLICATIONS WORKING PARTY OF EBMT
2. Christo Tsilifis (United Kingdom) - HAEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION FOR CTLA-4 INSUFFICIENCY: AN EBMT INBORN ERRORS WORKING PARTY STUDY
3. Haroon Shaikh (Germany) - LYMPH NODE BLOOD ENDOTHELIAL CELLS PRIME ALLOREACTIVE CD4+ T CELLS IN ACUTE GRAFT-VERSUS-HOST DISEASE INITIATION
4. Christo Tsilifis (United Kingdom) - HAEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION FOR STAT3 DOMINANT-NEGATIVE HYPER-IGE SYNDROME: INTERNATIONAL STUDY
5. Quentin Riller (France) - HAPLOIDENTICAL STEM-CELL TRANSPLANTATION FOR CHRONIC GRANULOMATOUS DISEASE, AN EBMT-IEWP RETROSPECTIVE STUDY
6. Mustafa Güven (Turkey) - EVALUATING THE IMPACT OF ABO COMPATIBILITY ON ALLOGENEIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION OUTCOMES A CONTEMPORARY AND COMPREHENSIVE STUDY FROM THE EBMT TRANSPLANT COMPLICATIONS WORKING PARTY
7. Laura M. Moser (Germany) - EFFECTIVE TREATMENT OF POST-TRANSPLANT RELAPSE IN YOUNG PATIENTS WITH ALL: POST APPROVAL REAL WORLD EXPERIENCE OF TREATMENT WITH TISAGENLECLEUCELL
8. Marie Czech (Germany) - LIPOCALIN-2 REDUCES ACUTE GRAFT-VERSUS-HOST DISEASE SEVERITY IN MICE
9. Lin Li (China) - A MULTI-CENTER RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS OF OUTCOMES POST-ALLO-HCT IN TET2-MUTATED AML PATIENTS: A STUDY ON BEHALF OF THE GLOBAL COMMITTEE AND THE ALWP OF THE EBMT
10. Yishan Ye (China) - COMPARATIVE STUDY FOR HAPLO, MSD AND MUD ALLO-HCTS FOR CBF AML PATIENTS IN CR2: A STUDY FROM THE GLOBAL COMMITTEE AND ALWP OF THE EBMT
11. Qiaomei He (China) - VLA-4 AGONIST PROMOTE ENGRAFTMENT AND CELL IMMUNE RECONSTITUTION OF ALLOGENEIC HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS
     

5 BEST YOUNG POSTER AWARDS

1. Jia Chen (China) - AUTOLOGOUS VERSUS HAPLOIDENTICAL DONOR STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION FOR FAVORABLE-AND INTERMEDIATE-RISK ACUTE MYELOID LEUKEMIA IN FIRST REMISSION AND UNDETECTABLE MINIMAL RESIDUAL DISEASE: A MULTI-CENTER, PROSPECTIVE STUDY
2. Sarah Weischendorff (Denmark) - PLASMA REG3Α AND CITRULLINE LEVELS PREDICT GASTROINTESTINAL AGVHD BEFORE CLINICAL ONSET IN PEDIATRIC HSCT
3. Sheng Chen (China) - ATG-TARGETED DOSING STRATEGY REDUCED CMV/EBV REACTIVATION AND IMPROVED SURVIVAL WITHOUT INCREASING GVHD AFTER URD-PBSCT : A SINGLE-CENTER, PROSPECTIVE ,SINGLE-ARM, CLINICAL TRIAL
4. Juan Fernando Gamboa Vargas (Germany) - DR3 AND GITR AGONISTS BOOST ENDOGENOUS TREG POOL TO PREVENT ACUTE GVHD
5. Filippo Frioni (Italy) - CLINICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF CYTOKINE RELEASE SYNDROME FOLLOWING HLA-MISMATCHED HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION: A RETROSPECTIVE MONOCENTRIC STUDY ON 250 TRANSPLANTS
    

SPRINGER NATURE POSTER AWARDS

Best Clinical Poster Award to Shu Ping Wong (Malaysia) - THE IMPACT OF ORAL AND GUT MICROBIOTA WITH CONSIDERATION OF CLINICAL AND IMMUNOLOGICAL FACTORS ON MUCOSITIS OUTCOMES: AN ASIAN HAEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANT POPULATION
 

Best Basic Science Poster Award to Maria Ester Bernardo (Italy) - AN INNOVATIVE PLATFORM APPROACH FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF EX-VIVO HEMATOPOIETIC STEM AND PROGENITOR CELL-GENE THERAPY FOR THE TREATMENT OF LYSOSOMAL STORAGE DISEASES WITH SKELETAL INVOLVEMENT

EBMT NURSES GROUP AWARDS

16^th DISTINGUISHED MERIT AWARD to Daphna Hutt

HONORARY MEMBER 2024 to Theo Nering Bögel

BEST ADULT ORAL PRESENTATION ABSTRACT AWARD to Kathy Goris (Belgium) - VACCINATION AFTER HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION: A NURSING-LED SINGLE CENTER INITIATIVE TO IMPROVE VACCINATION STATUS

BEST PAEDIATRIC ORAL PRESENTATION ABSTRACT AWARD to Katie Elwig (United Kingdom) - A QUALITY IMPROVEMENT PROJECT TO IMPROVE THE ACCURACY OF ASSESSMENT AND REPORTING OF STOOLS IN CHILDREN UNDERGOING HAEMOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANT

BEST RESEARCH ORAL PRESENTATION ABSTRACT AWARD to Lotte Kinds (Belgium) - PATIENTS' PERSPECTIVES ON PSYCHOSOCIAL SUPPORT IN ALLOGENEIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION WITH A RELATED DONOR

BEST ADULT POSTER PRESENTATION ABSTRACT AWARD to Debbie Anderson (United Kingdom) - GVHD PATIENT SUPPORT GROUP

BEST PAEDIATRIC POSTER PRESENTATION ABSTRACT AWARD to Annette Hill (United Kingdom) - PAEDIATRIC SIBLING STEM CELL DONORS - ESTABLISHING A NURSE LED CLINIC

EBMT PHARMACISTS AWARDS

BEST PHARMACISTS' ABSTRACTS AWARD to Khalil Ben Hassine (Switzerland) for the abstract EFFICIENT MODEL-INFORMED PRECISION DOSING FOR BUSULFAN IN PEDIATRIC HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION

BEST PHARMACISTS' ABSTRACTS AWARD to Heather Weerdenburg (Australia) for the abstract POSACONAZOLE DRT IN CHILDREN. TIME TO BRING OUT THE PILL CRUSHER? 

 BEST PHARMACISTS' ABSTRACTS AWARD to Sara Redondo (Spain) for the abstract DEVELOPMENT AND CLINICAL VALIDATION OF LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY-TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY FOR INDIVIDUALIZED RUXOLITINIB ADJUSTMENT IN FUTURE CASES OF STEROID-REFRACTORY GRAFT-VERSUS-HOST DISEASE

EBMT QUALITY MANAGEMENT AWARD

BEST QUALITY MANAGEMENT ABSTRACT AWARD to Florence Mesnil (France) for the abstract MONITORING ALLOGENEIC TRANSPLANT CENTERS PERFORMANCE USING THE CUSUM METHOD