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ASH Directions
Participants at the 2014 ASH
Foundation Run/Walk.
Counting Down to the
ASH Annual Meeting in
Orlando, Florida
The 57th ASH Annual Meeting & Exposition is less than two months
away. This is the premier event in malignant and non-malignant hematology, where attendees will have the opportunity to review more than
3,000 scientific abstracts highlighting the updates in the hottest topics
in hematology, interact with the global community of more than 20,000
hematology professionals from every subspecialty, attend the hallmark
Education and Scientific Program sessions, and network with top minds
in the field.
Dates to Keep in Mind
Call for Late-Breaking Abstract submissions
Advanced registration deadline
Abstracts available online
October 22-29
November 4
November 5
Get Your Blood Racing in Support of the Future of Hematology
If you have not already done so, consider registering for the ASH Foundation Run/Walk on Sunday, December 6. Join fellow ASH meeting
attendees, including Carol O’Hear (turn to page 54 to read about her
PASHion), for the Run/Walk along Universal Boulevard in Orlando. You
can choose a 3K or 5K route, donate, and fundraise as an individual, with
colleagues as a team, or as a sponsor for other participants such as trainees. Friends and family can support your efforts by donating in honor
of you or your team! To register and/or donate, please go to webapps.
hematology.org/runwalk.
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View Educational Content from the ASH Meeting on
Hematologic Malignancies
Whether or not you attended the ASH Meeting
on Hematologic Malignancies in Chicago last
month, you can pre-order the webcast and receive
more than 15 hours of exclusive educational
content. The webcast provides access to 25 sessions
and 9 panel discussions featuring top experts in
hematologic malignancies, including leukemia,
lymphoma, myelodysplastic syndromes, myeloma,
and myeloproliferative neoplasms. The content
will feature evidence-based treatment approaches,
ranging from standard of care, specialized disease
complications, and novel agent discussions.
Go to ashondemand.org/Meeting/102935274
to preorder this educational product. Turn to
page 43 for more coverage of this meeting.
Save the Date: 2016 ASH Meeting on Lymphoma Biology
The ASH Meeting on Lymphoma Biology will be held June
18-21, 2016, at the Broadmoor
in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
The goal of the meeting is to
further the understanding of
lymphoma pathogenesis and
accelerate new therapies by
providing a forum for scientific
exchange and networking opportunities for the lymphoma
community. The meeting’s
objectives include:
• Establish a forum for the
exchange of the state-of-science in basic and translational lymphoma research
• Encourage networking
among lymphoma researchers to enable more collaboration and synergy in the field
• Foster collaboration and
sharing of data and reagents
among lymphoma researchers
• Support relationships between academia and industry
focused on chemical biology,
immun otherapy, and other
therapeutic approaches in the
area of lymphoma
The target audience for this
meeting includes laboratory-
based scientists, translational
investigators, pharmaceutical
scientists, and others interested in lymphoma science. The
three-day meeting will include
didactic sessions, abstract
presentations, and interactive
workshops/panel discussions.
Keynote Speakers:
Michael Stratton, MBBS, PhD
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute,
Cambridge, United Kingdom
Topic: Genetics of Cancer
Hao Wu, PhD
Boston Children’s Hospital,
Boston, MA
Topic: Elucidation of
Macromolecular Interactions Using
Structural Biology
October 2015