EBMT 2026 Annual Meeting - Awards

OPENING CEREMONY

HONORARY MEMBERS: In recognition of their invaluable and exceptional contributions to haematopoietic cell transplantation and cellular therapy, as well as their dedicated service to EBMT.

EBMT PHYSICIANS AWARDS

VAN BEKKUM AWARD to Roni Shouval (USA) for the study: HIGH-THROUGHPUT DEEP LEARNING-BASED PROFILING OF CAR-T IMMUNE DYNAMICS FROM ROUTINE PERIPHERAL BLOOD SMEARS

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BASIC SCIENCE AWARD Basic Science Award to Ane Altuna Mongelos (Spain) for the study: CD19/CD84 IF-BETTER DUAL CAR T CELLS DEMONSTRATE SUPERIOR CONTROL OF CD19-LOW B-ALL THAN SINGLE CART19

JIAN-JIAN LUAN AWARD FOR LYMPHOMA TRANSPLANT RESEARCH to Anna Ossami Saidy (Germany) for the study: COMPARATIVE EFFICACY OF AXICABTAGENE CILOLEUCEL AND LISOCABTAGENE MARALEUCEL IN SECOND LINE TREATMENT OF RELAPSED/REFRACTORY LARGE B-CELL LYMPHOMA – AN EBMT ANALYSIS

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JON J. VAN ROOD AWARD to Julius Fischer (Germany) for the paper: Tissue-adapted Tregs harness inflammatory signals to promote intestinal repair from therapy-related injury

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DIETRICH NIETHAMMER AWARD to Franco Locatelli (Italy)

CONTEST SESSION WINNER: Sara Main (UK) for the best video essay: "Come Sit With Me. A poem about how an allogeneic stem cell transplant can cure your cancer".

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BEST YOUNG ABSTRACTS AWARDS

9 BEST YOUNG ORAL PRESENTATIONS

1. Laura M. Moser (Germany): COMPARATIVE OUTCOMES AFTER SEROTHERAPY WITH ATLG-GRAFALON OR ATG-THYMOGLOBULIN IN PEDIATRIC ALL PATIENTS GIVEN MUD ALLOGENEIC HSCT: FINDINGS FROM THE INTERNATIONAL PROSPECTIVE FORUM STUDY
2. Yi-Han Yang (China): NANOBODY-DERIVED CD19/CD22 TANDEM CAR-T THERAPY AS SALVAGE TREATMENT FOR IMMUNOTHERAPY-REFRACTORY B-ALL AFTER BLINATUMOMAB, INOTUZUMAB, OR PRIOR SINGLE-TARGET CAR-T: PHASE 1A DOSE FINDING AND RP2D EVALUATION
3. Shirley Genah (Italy): PHARMACOLOGICAL MODULATION OF PROTEOSTASIS AS A STRATEGY TO BOOST THYMIC REGENERATION AND T CELL IMMUNITY
4. Sapir Israeli (United States): MULTIMODAL PREDICTION OF EARLY CARDIOVASCULAR TOXICITY AFTER CAR-T THERAPY
5. Alessandro Criscimanna (Italy): COMPARISON OF UD9/10 WITH DQB1 MISMATCHES VS UD10/10 IN PATIENTS WITH AML TRANSPLANTED IN CR, A STUDY ON BEHALF ON THE ALWP
6. Kristie N. Ramos (United States): HUMAN MILK OLIGOSACCHARIDE (2'-FUCOSYLLACTOSE) MODIFIES THE GUT MICROBIOME AND REDUCES ACUTE GI GVHD: RESULTS OF A PROSPECTIVE, FIRST IN-PEDIATRICS PHASE II STUDY
7. Jingjing Feng (China): CO-INFUSION OF ANTI-CD19 AND ANTI-BCMA CAR-T CELLS FOR RELAPSED OR REFRACTORY NMOSD: A PHASE 1 CLINICAL TRIAL AND MECHANISTIC INSIGHTS
8. Polina Kotselyabina (The Russian Federation): AVOIDING SALVAGE CHEMOTHERAPY IN EARLY PD-1 INHIBITOR RESPONDERS: OUTCOMES OF LOW-DOSE NIVOLUMAB-BASED SECOND-LINE THERAPY (NICE-40) FOR HODGKIN LYMPHOMA
9. Igor Age Kos (Germany): CELLULAR THERAPIES IN PRIMARY CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM LYMPHOMA: REAL-WORLD EBMT OUTCOMES WITH CAR-T CELLS AND ALLOGENEIC HEMATOPOIETIC CELL TRANSPLANT

7 BEST YOUNG POSTER PRESENTATIONS

1. Maria Val-Casals (Spain): VERSATILE  ALLOGENEIC VIRUS-SPECIFIC CAR-T CELLS FOR HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCIES
2. Besjana Xhahysa (Italy): IMMUNE MODULATION BY CAR-T CELLS: EXTRACELLULAR VESICLES AND SECRETOME AS DRIVERS OF MONOCYTE ACTIVATION
3. Anniek Stuut (Netherlands): GRAFT PLATFORM AND VIRAL REACTIVATION IMPRINT LONG-TERM ALPHABETA AND GAMMADELTA T-CELL CLONAL AND TRANSCRIPTIONAL REMODELING AFTER ALLO-HSCT
4. Clayton Long (United States): RESTORATION OF PULMONARY ENDOTHELIAL HEALTH AND OVERALL SURVIVAL FOLLOWING ALLOGENEIC HSCT THROUGH MINICIRCLE FOXF1 MRNA NANOPARTICLE THERAPY IN JUVENILE MICE
5. Irene Pascual-Latorre (Spain): PHARMACOLOGICAL MODULATION OF CAR30 AND CAR19 T CELL STEMNESS AND EX VIVO EXPANSION WITH PI3K AND CBP/P300 INHIBITION
6. Carmen Santos (Spain): INFLAMMATORY AND STROMAL ALTERATIONS OF THE HEMATOPOIETIC NICHE ASSOCIATED WITH POST–CAR-T CYTOPENIAS
7. Carmen Santos (Spain): EVALUATION OF THE STATUS OF THE HEMATOPOIETIC NICHE PRE-LYMPHODEPLETION IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF POST–CAR-T HEMATOTOXICITY

SPRINGER NATURE AWARDS

BEST BASIC SCIENCE POSTER AWARD to Jing Zheng (China): GENETIC MECHANISMS UNDERLYING CLONAL EVOLUTION DURING RELAPSE FOLLOWING ALLOGENEIC HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION IN PHILADELPHIA CHROMOSOME–POSITIVE ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA

BEST CLINICAL POSTER AWARD to Francisco Javier Gil-Etayo (Spain): HLA–KIR INTERACTIONS AS PREDICTIVE BIOMARKERS OF NK ALLOREACTIVITY IN HAPLOIDENTICAL TRANSPLANTATION WITH PTCY

EBMT NURSES GROUP AWARDS

HONORARY MEMBER AWARDS to Jacqui Stringer (UK) and Michelle Kenyon (UK)

BEST ADULT ORAL PRESENTATION ABSTRACT AWARD to Nina Canova (Switzerland): JOURNEY MAPPING AS A METHOD TO EXPLORE THE ADOPTIVE CELL THERAPY EXPERIENCE OF PATIENTS, INFORMAL CAREGIVERS, AND HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS

BEST PAEDIATRIC ORAL PRESENTATION ABSTRACT AWARD to Isabel Salcedo (Spain): SAFETY PROFILES OF TWO ANTI-THYMOCYTE GLOBULIN FORMULATIONS IN PEDIATRIC HEMATOPOIETIC CELL TRANSPLANTATION: IMPLICATIONS FOR NURSING CARE

BEST RESEARCH ORAL PRESENTATION ABSTRACT AWARD to Sabine Valenta (Germany): EMOTIONAL BURDEN PREDICTS MORTALITY 5 YEARS AFTER ADULT HEMATOPOIETIC CELL TRANSPLANTATION: THE PROSPECTIVE SWISS TRANSPLANT COHORT STUDY 

BEST ADULT POSTER PRESENTATION ABSTRACT AWARD to Oleksandr Istomin (Ukraine): GLOBAL COLLABORATION AND AI-ENHANCED ONLINE EDUCATION FOR UKRAINIAN HCT NURSES IN WARTIME 

BEST PAEDIATRIC POSTER PRESENTATION ABSTRACT AWARD to Dina El Mouzain (United Arab Emirates): ESTABLISHING THE FIRST PEDIATRIC BONE MARROW TRANSPLANT NURSING PROGRAM IN THE UAE: A MODEL FOR COMPETENCY BASED EDUCATION AND INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION 

EBMT PHARMACISTS AWARDS

BEST PHARMACISTS' ABSTRACTS AWARD to Sandra Witta (Germany): ENABLING MODEL INFORMED PRECISION DOSING OF BUSULFAN IN HSCT PATIENTS: AN EXTERNAL MODEL EVALUATION 

BEST PHARMACISTS' ABSTRACTS AWARD to Shaden Mahmmod (The Netherlands): HIGHER INFLIXIMAB EXPOSURE IS ASSOCIATED WITH IMPROVED RESPONSE IN PEDIATRIC STEROID-REFRACTORY GRAFT-VERSUS-HOST DISEASE: DO WE NEED THERAPEUTIC DRUG MONITORING?

EBMT QUALITY MANAGEMENT AWARD

BEST QUALITY MANAGEMENT ABSTRACT AWARD to Lisandra Priscilla Hernández Morales (Spain): WORKFLOW-INTEGRATED DIGITAL PLATFORM FOR PROCEDURE PLANNING AND REAL-TIME CAPTURE OF JACIE-REQUIRED KPIS IN APHERESIS UNITS AND CELL THERAPY PROCESSING AND CRYOPRESERVATION LABORATORIES