The European Hematology Association Roadmap for European Hematology Research: a consensus document

AUTHOR GROUP, Thomas Kuehne, Georg Maschmeyer, Simon Mendez-Ferrer, Michael Milsom, Christine Mummery, Gert Ossenkoppele, Alessandro Pecci, Flora Peyvandi, Sjaak Philipsen, Jose Maria Ribera, Antonio Risitano, Stefano Rivella, Wolfram Ruf, Timm Schroeder, Marie Scully, Gerard Socie, Frank Staal, Simon Stanworth, Reinhard StauderStephan Stilgenbauer, Hannah Tamary, Kim Theilgaard-Monch, Swee Lay Thein, Herve Tilly, Marek Trneny, William Vainchenker, Alessandro Maria Vannucchi, Claudio Viscoli, Hans Vrielink, Alberto Zanella, Lello Zolla, Jaap Jan Zwaginga, Patricia Aguilar Martinez, Emile van den Akker, Shubha Allard, Nicholas Anagnou, Nicholas Anagnou, Jean-Christophe Andrau, Emanuele Angelucci, David Anstee, Igor Aurer, Herve Avet-Loiseau, Yesim Aydinok, Tamam Bakchoul, Alessandra Balduini, Wilma Barcellini, Dominique Baruch, Andre Baruchel, Jagadeesh Bayry, Celeste Bento, Anke van den Berg, Rosa Bernardi, Paola Bianchi, Anna Bigas, Andrea Biondi, Milos Bohonek, Dominique Bonnet, Peter Borchmann, Niels Borregaard, Sigrid Braekkan, Marcel van den Brink, Ellen Brodin, Lars Bullinger, Christian Buske, Barbara Butzeck, Jorg Cammenga, Elias Campo, Antonino Carbone, Francisco Cervantes, Simone Cesaro, Pierre Charbord, Frans Claas, Hannah Cohen, Jacqueline Conard, Paul Coppo, Joan-Lluis Vives Corrons, Lydie da Costa, Frederic Davi, Ruud Delwel, Irma Dianzani, Dragoslav Domanovic, Peter Donnelly, Tadeja Dov Drnovsek, Martin Dreyling, Ming-Qing Du, Ming-Qing Du, Charles Durand, Dimitar Efremov, Androulla Eleftheriou, Jacques Elion, Marieke Emonts, Monika Engelhardt, Sophie Ezine, Fred Falkenburg, Remi Favier, Massimo Federico, Pierre Fenaux, Jude Fitzgibbon, Johan Flygare, Robin Foa, Lesley Forrester, Frederic Galacteros, Isabella Garagiola, Chris Gardiner, Olivier Garraud, Christel van Geet, Hartmut Geiger, Jan Geissler, Ulrich Germing, Cedric Ghevaert, Domenico Girelli, Bertrand Godeau, Nicola Goekbuget, Hartmut Goldschmidt, Anne Goodeve, Thomas Graf, Giovanna Graziadei, Martin Griesshammer, Yves Gruel, Francois Guilhot, Stephan von Gunten, Inge Gyssens, Jorg Halter, Claire Harrison, Cornelis Harteveld, Eva Hellstrom-Lindberg, Olivier Hermine, Douglas Higgs, Peter Hillmen, Hans Hirsch, Peter Hoskin, Gerwin Huls, Adlette Inati, Peter Johnson, Antonis Kattamis, Volker Kiefel, Marina Kleanthous, Hannes Klump, Daniela Krause, Johanna Kremer Hovinga, Georges Lacaud, Sebastien Lacroix-Desmazes, Judith Landman-Parker, Steven LeGouill, Georg Lenz, Marie von Lilienfeld-Toal, Marieke von Lindern, Armando Lopez-Guillermo, Enrico Lopriore, Miguel Lozano, Elizabeth MacIntyre, Michael Makris, Christine Mannhalter, Joost Martens, Stephan Mathas, Axel Matzdorff, Alexander Medvinsky, Pablo Menendez, Anna Rita Migliaccio, Kenichi Miharada, Malgorzata Mikulska, Veronique Minard, Carlos Montalban, Mariane de Montalembert, Emili Montserrat, Pierre-Emmanuel Morange, Joanne Mountford, Martina Muckenthaler, Carsten Mueller-Tidow, Andrew Mumford, Bertrand Nadel, Jose-Tomas Navarro, Wassim el Nemer, France Noizat-Pirenne, Brian O'Mahony, Johannes Oldenburg, Martin Olsson, Robert Oostendorp, Antonio Palumbo, Francesco Passamonti, Roger Patient, Regis Peffault de Latour, Francoise Pflumio, Luca Pierelli, Antonio Piga, Debra Pollard, Marc Raaijmakers, John Radford, Ralf Rambach, A. Koneti Rao, Hana Raslova, Paolo Rebulla, David Rees, Vincent Ribrag, Anita Rijneveld, Sara Rinalducci, Tadeusz Robak, Irene Roberts, Charlene Rodrigues, Frits Rosendaal, Andreas Rosenwald, Simon Rule, Roberta Russo, Guiseppe Saglio, Mayka Sanchez, Ruediger E. Scharf, Peter Schlenke, John Semple, Jorge Sierra, Cynthia So-Osman, Jose Manuel Soria, Kostas Stamatopoulos, Bernd Stegmayr, Henk Stunnenberg, Dorine Swinkels, Joao Pedro Taborda Barata, Tom Taghon, Ali Taher, Evangelos Terpos, Jecko Thachil, Jean Daniel Tissot, Ivo Touw, Ash Toye, Ralf Trappe, Alexandra Traverse-Glehen, Sule Unal, Sophie Vaulont, Vip Viprakasit, Umberto Vitolo, Richard van Wijk, Agnieszka Wojtowicz, Barbara Zieger

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Abstract

The European Hematology Association (EHA) Roadmap for European Hematology Research highlights major achievements in diagnosis and treatment of blood disorders and identifies the greatest unmet clinical and scientific needs in those areas to enable better funded, more focused European hematology research. Initiated by the EHA, around 300 experts contributed to the consensus document, which will help European policy makers, research funders, research organizations, researchers, and patient groups make better informed decisions on hematology research. It also aims to raise public awareness of the burden of blood disorders on European society, which purely in economic terms is estimated at €23 billion per year, a level of cost that is not matched in current European hematology research funding. In recent decades, hematology research has improved our fundamental understanding of the biology of blood disorders, and has improved diagnostics and treatments, sometimes in revolutionary ways. This progress highlights the potential of focused basic research programs such as this EHA Roadmap.The EHA Roadmap identifies nine 'sections' in hematology: normal hematopoiesis, malignant lymphoid and myeloid diseases, anemias and related diseases, platelet disorders, blood coagulation and hemostatic disorders, transfusion medicine, infections in hematology, and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. These sections span 60 smaller groups of diseases or disorders.The EHA Roadmap identifies priorities and needs across the field of hematology, including those to develop targeted therapies based on genomic profiling and chemical biology, to eradicate minimal residual malignant disease, and to develop cellular immunotherapies, combination treatments, gene therapies, hematopoietic stem cell treatments, and treatments that are better tolerated by elderly patients
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)115-208
JournalHaematologica
Volume101
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Feb 2016

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