Awards at EBMT 2019

OPENING SESSION

VAN BEKKUM AWARD to German MDS Study Group and Cooperative German Transplant Study Group for their abstract entitled AZACYTIDINE (5-AZA) INDUCTION FOLLOWED BY ALLOGENEIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION VERSUS CONTINUOUS 5-AZA IN ELDERLY MDS PATIENTS (55-70 YEARS). A PROSPECTIVE RANDOMIZED STUDY (VIDAZAALLO STUDY)

BASIC SCIENCE AWARD to Melody Smith for her abstract entitled INTESTINAL MICROBIOME ANALYSES IDENTIFY BIOMARKERS FOR PATIENT RESPONSE TO CAR T CELL THERAPY

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PRESIDENTIAL SYMPOSIUM

HONORARY MEMBERS

Per Ljungman (Sweden) and Mauricette Michallet (France)

CLINICAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

Wiesław Jędrzejczak (Poland) and James Biggs (Australia)

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LYMPHOMA WORKING PARTY SESSION

JIAN-JIAN LUAN AWARD to Chiara De Philippis for her abstract entitled: CHECKPOINT INHIBITOR TREATMENT BEFORE HAPLOIDENTICAL TRANSPLATATION IN RELAPSED OR REFRACTORY HODGKIN LYMPHOMA (HL) PATIENTS IS ASSOCIATED WITH HIGHER PFS WITHOUT INCREASED TOXICITIES

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CELLULAR THERAPY & IMMUNOBIOLOGY WORKING PARTY SESSION

JON J. VAN ROOD AWARD to Itauá Leston Araujo (Brazil) for his abstract entitled: Human thymopoiesis is influenced by a common genetic variant within the TCRA-TCRD locus

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2^nd POSTER SESSION - BEST YOUNG ABSTRACTS

10 BEST YOUNG ABSTRACT AWARDS

1. Maria Speranza Massei - HLA-HAPLOIDENTICAL TRANSPLANTATION WITH REGULATORY AND CONVENTIONAL T-CELL ADOPTIVE IMMUNOTHERAPY IN PEDIATRIC PATIENTS WITH HIGH-RISK ACUTE LEUKEMIA
2. Francesca Lorentino - PROGNOSTIC VALUE OF FUNCTIONAL HLA-DPB1 MISMATCHING AFTER ALLOGENEIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION FROM 8/8 HLA-MATCHED UNRELATED DONOR
3. Serena Albanese - POST-TRANSPLANT CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE AND SIROLIMUS IN MATCHED RELATED AND UNRELATED ALLOGENEIC TRANSPLANT: RESULTS IN 100 PATIENTS
4. Valentín Ortiz-Maldonado - UPDATED ANALYSIS OF CART19-BE-01 TRIAL: AN ACADEMIC TRIAL ON THE USE OF ARI-0001 CELLS (A3B1:CD8:4-1BB:CD3Z CAR19 CELLS) IN PATIENTS WITH CD19+ RELAPSED / REFRACTORY MALIGNANCIES
5. Nico Gagelmann - DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF A CLINICAL-MOLECULAR TRANSPLANT SCORING SYSTEM FOR MYELOFIBROSIS
6. Marthe C.J Roex - PROPHYLACTIC INFUSION OF MULTI-ANTIGEN-SPECIFIC T-CELL PRODUCTS TO PREVENT COMPLICATIONS EARLY AFTER T-CELL DEPLETED ALLOGENEIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION: A PHASE I/II STUDY
7. Sara Piccinelli - TREG/TCON IMMUNOTHERAPY PROMOTES HSC-DERIVED B LYMPHOPOIESIS AND BOOSTS B CELL IMMUNITY AFTER HAPLOIDENTICAL TRANSPLANTATION
8. Meng Lv - CYTOMEGALOVIRUS MIR-US4-1/UL-148D REDUCE THE RELAPSE IN PATIENTS WITH ACUTE MYELOID LEUKEMIA AFTER HAPLOIDENTICAL HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION BY STRENGTHENING NKG2C+NK RECONSTITUTION VIA PLZF/KLRC1
9. Wesley Huisman - THE SCOPE OF ALLO-HLA CROSS-REACTIVITY BY (THIRD PARTY) VIRUS-SPECIFIC T-CELLS IS SURPRISINGLY AFFECTED BY HLA RESTRICTION RATHER THAN VIRUS SPECIFICITY
10. Sergei Blagov - LOW-DOSE INFUSIONS OF CD45RA DEPLETED DONOR LYMPHOCYTES AFTER TCR ALPHA/BETA-DEPLETED TRANSPLANTATION IN PATIENTS WITH NON-MALIGNANT DISORDERS

5 BEST YOUNG POSTER AWARDS

1. Samar Elbahy - TREOSULFAN-BASED CONDITIONING REGIMENS FOR ALLOGENEIC HAEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION IN PAEDIATRIC NON-MALIGNANT DISEASES
2. Maria Lammoglia Cobo - SINGLE CELL IDENTIFICATION OF DEFINED EBV EPITOPE-SPECIFIC TCRαβ PAIRS FOR ADOPTIVE T CELL TRANSFER AGAINST EBV INFECTION AND EBV-ASSOCIATED MALIGNANCIES
3. Nicolaas Gerhardt Van Der Maas - FACTORS INFLUENCING B-CELL RECONSTITUTION AFTER HSCT
4. Katrine Kielsen - IL-7 AND IL-15 LEVELS REFLECT THE DEGREE OF T-CELL DEPLETION DURING LYMPHOPENIA AND DRIVE EXPANSION OF EFFECTOR MEMORY T CELLS AFTER ALLOGENEIC HSCT
5. Manon Delafoy - COMPARISON OF TOXICITY AFTER HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANT IN SICKLE CELL DISEASE BETWEEN CHILDREN AGED LESS THAN 13 YEARS AND TEENAGERS AGED 13-18 YEARS OLD

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CLOSING CEREMONY

SPRINGER NATURE POSTER AWARDS

The Best Clinical Poster Award, sponsored by Springer, was presented to Eliana Ruggiero for her poster entitled: Longitudinal tracking of WT1-specific T cells allows to generate a library of WT1-specific T cell receptors (TCR), for TCR gene editing of acute leukemia

The Best Science Poster Award, sponsored by Springer, was presented to Johannes Schetelig for his poster entitled: Does Donor KIR-Genotype Impact Outcome After Unrelated Hematopoietic Stell Cell Transplantation for Myelodysplastic Syndromes or Secondary Acute Myeloid Leukemia?

EBMT Research Fellowship Grant in the field of "haematopoeitic stem cell transplantation in acute leukaemia" was presented to Mirjam Belderbos for her research on tracing the clonal dynamics of single HSCs in human hematopoietic stem cell recipients

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EBMT NURSES GROUP AWARDS

DISTINGUISHED MERIT AWARD to Aleksandra Babic for her services to the EBMT Nurses Group. Aleksandra has held positions on the Scientific Committee, Global Education and President of the EBMT Nurses Group. She has worked tirelessly and with huge energy and dedication to the EBMT Community. Her many achievements include launching the Global Education Committee with a huge impact on the training and education of the nursing workforce in LMICs India, China and Myanmar supporting the opportunity for JACIE step 1 accreditation. She has also developed an online accredited JACIE competency course and most recently co-Edited the EBMT Textbook for nurses which was published in 2018. She has been a real inspiration and influence for many nurses and transplant colleagues within the EBMT and globally.

BEST RESEARCH ABSTRACT ORAL PRESENTATION to Cristina Canaleta Ros for her abstract entitled PERCEPTION OF PATIENTS ABOUT THE INSERTION OF CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER: PREPARATION, FUNCTIONALITY AND BODY IMAGE - STUDY PRELIMINARY RESULTS

BEST ORAL PRESENTATION to Sabine Valenta for her presentation entitled RE-ENGINEERING FOLLOW-UP CARE AFTER ALLOGENEIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION: PATIENTS' AND CLINICIANS` PERSPECTIVES OF EHEALTH ENHANCED SUPPORT CARE - THE SMILE STUDY

BEST POSTER to Stéphanie Schmitt for her poster entitled "GREFFÉ & GOURMET": CREATION OF A RECIPE BOOK FOR TRANSPLANT PATIENTS

BEST PAEDIATRICS ORAL PRESENTATION to James Evans for his presentation entitled GASTROSTOMY FEEDING REDUCES THE NEED FOR PARENTERAL NUTRITION IN CHILDREN UNDERGOING ALLOGENIC BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION

BEST PAEDIATRICS POSTER PRESENTATION to Julie Guest for her poster presentation entitled INCREASING THE IMPACT OF MEANINGFUL PATIENT RESEARCH - BUILDING A DEEPER UNDERSTANDING OF THE LIFEWORLD AND BURDEN OF ILLNESS IN A CHILD AND ADOLESCENT CLINICAL APHERESIS COMMUNITY