Tuesday 1 September, 17:45-18:15H, Auditorium 1
Please join us for the Closing Ceremony of this year’s special online congress, in which EBMT President Professor Nicolaus Kröger will announce the winners of the Springer Nature Poster Awards, awarded to the best clinical physician’s poster and the best science physician’s poster. It will also feature the presentation by Flavia Peci on the results of the EBMT Fellowship Grant 2019: "Cord versus marrow: Are young stem cells superior for transplantation?".
The EBMT 2021 Congress President, Dr Rafael Duarte, will also invite us all to the next EBMT Congress in Madrid, March 14 – 17 2021. Regarding the success of this year’s online congress, Dr Duarte said: “In what have been very difficult and unprecedented circumstances, our EBMT community has come together to hold this online congress, which I hope you will agree has been a great success, with so many interesting sessions and indeed a record number of registered delegates.”
“In 2021, we hope to bring you all the best of both worlds – the onsite and virtual formats brought together into a single congress, giving flexibility to different participants to get the best experience possible adapted to everyone needs and circumstances, depending on the pandemic control and on other personal circumstances.”
Dr Duarte adds: “Work has already begun on the programme for 2021. Along with our usual focus of various transplant indications and complications, we will have exciting new sessions planned for 2021: sessions on HSCT for immune modulation of solid organ transplantation, sessions on mesenchymal stromal cells and other forms of immunotherapy including CAR T-cells, and sessions on the role of gene and cellular therapies in inborn errors of immunity. Of course, we will continue to include new Special Sessions on the impact of COVID in HSCT and on the contribution of haematological therapies on the management of these patients.”
And finally, Professor Kröger will be giving his closing remarks, some of which can be read in his profile interview.
He says: “This year was and still is for all physicians, scientists, nurses, and health care providers really challenging because of the COVID-19 crisis. Especially all nurses, healthcare providers, and physicians around the world worked tirelessly to take care of the patients with COVID-19 infection. They deserve our thanks and respect.”
He concludes: “I hope we will have soon better control of COVID-19 through an effective vaccine and will be able to see each other face-to-face at our next 2021 EBMT annual meeting in Madrid!”