EHA Congress 15th Anniversary - European Hematology Association

Meet the Research Fellowship 2010
Winners in Barcelona
A substantial amount of EHA’s annual budget is reserved for the EHA Fellowship Program. The aim of the program is to
promote European Hematological research and in particular to support junior basic and clinical researchers in the
development of their careers. The Fellowship Program has been very successful over the last years. A great number of
junior researchers have received awards since the start of the program in 2000 and this has resulted in an increased
involvement of junior hematologists in EHA activities. The EHA Research Fellowship winners of 2010 will receive their
award during the 15 th Congress of EHA in Barcelona.
> The EHA Partner Fellowship. The
EHA Partner Fellowship program provides
seed grant funds to young investigators
to promote their career development
in new accession and EU candidate
countries. The goal of this program is to
set up inter-institutional networks of
collaboration between centers of excellence
in Western Europe and clinical research
in hematology in new accession
and EU candidate countries.
Funding is for a maximum of three years
at € 35,000 per year. One applicant is selected
each year. This year, Dr Csaba
Bödör from the 1 st Department of Pathology
and Experimental Cancer Research
of the Semmelweis University
Budapest in Hungary, has been selected
by the committee and will conduct his
research project at the Institute of Cancer
in London to work with Dr Jude
Fitzgibbon. His research subject is
Dr Ingmar Bruns
8 > EHA Newsletter May 2010
Dr Csaba Bödör
titled:”To Establish an Epigenetic Model of
Follicular Lymphoma Pathogenesis”.
The EHA-ASH Research Exchange
Award is being offered in partnership
with the American Society of Hematology
(ASH) to provide hematologists in training
or early in their careers the opportunity
to conduct research in another
country. The award amount is € 75.000
for a maximum of two years and a minimum
of ten months.
Two winners were selected, both from
Europe: Ingmar Bruns, MD, PhD, from
the Heinrich-Heine University of Dusseldorf
in Germany will work at the Department
of Hematology and Medical Oncology,
Mount Sinai School of Medicine in
New York with Dr Paul Frenette and
study “The role of orexin A and B neuropeptides
for the regulation of hematopoietic
stem and progenitor cells”
The second winner, Mark Coyne,
MB,BCh, BAO, MRCP, from the National
University of Ireland, will work at the
Mayo Clinic with Dr Leif Bergsagel, at
the John Hopkins University with Dr Bill
Matsui and at The Broad Institute with Dr
Michael Reich, all in the United States.
The title of Dr Coyne’s study is “Empowering
Global Translational Hematology”.
Dr Mark Coyne
Effective April 1, 2010 the EHA Partner
Fellowship and the EHA-ASH Exchange
Award have been discontinued.
Detailed information about the
EHA Career Development Program
containing research fellowships and
the TRTH-Award can be found on the
EHA website.