Graft Versus Host Disease (GVHD)

Donor regulatory T-cell therapy to prevent graft-versus-host disease

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Key Points Treg-engineered donor graft prevents acute and chronic GVHD. Patients treated with Treg-engineered graft who develop GVHD respond to primary corticosteroid therapy at a high rate. Abstract Allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation is a curative therapy limited by…

The impact of ABO compatibility on allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation outcomes: a contemporary and comprehensive study from the transplant complications working party of the EBMT

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Abstract The role of ABO blood group system mismatch on allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (allo-HCT) outcomes is controversial since current publications of large datasets are lacking. We retrospectively analyzed 30,487 patients transplanted between 2010 and 2021…

Status Update Support is Growing to Restore Funding to CDMRP and BMFRP Research Programs

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Thanks to the efforts of our AAMDSIF bone marrow failure community and coalition partners, a bipartisan group of 105 U.S. House and 29 Senate members urged their leaders to restore funding to the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs ( CDMRP) including the Bone…

Raymond J. Hohl, MD, PhD

Institution
The Pennsylvania State University School of Medicine
Physician Status
accepting new patients
Primary Disease Area of Focus
Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML)
Aplastic Anemia
Graft Versus Host Disease (GVHD)
Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS)
Myeloproliferative Neoplasms (MPN)
About
Dr. Hohl began his career at the University of Iowa, College of Medicine in 1991, where he served as assistant professor in the department of internal medicine. He became an assistant professor in the department of pharmacology in 1993 and was promoted to associate professor of both internal medicine and pharmacology in 1997. Dr. Hohl became the director of the division of hematology, oncology and blood and marrow transplantation at the Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa in 1995. In 1999, he became the associate director for clinical research for the Holden

Kenneth R. Cooke, MD

Institution
Johns Hopkins University
Physician Status
accepting new patients
Primary Disease Area of Focus
Graft Versus Host Disease (GVHD)
Pediatric
About
Dr. Cooke is Director of the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center’s Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplantation Program. Prior to his appointment at Johns Hopkins, Dr. Cooke headed the Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplantation Program at Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital, and University Hospitals Case Medical Center, in Cleveland, Ohio. He also co-directed the Hematologic Disorders Program of the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center at Case Western Reserve University. A nationally recognized transplantation immunology expert, Dr. Cooke focuses primarily on new strategies to prevent and treat graft

Anurag Singh, MD

Institution
The University of Kansas
Physician Status
accepting new patients
Primary Disease Area of Focus
Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML)
Aplastic Anemia
Graft Versus Host Disease (GVHD)
Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS)
Myeloproliferative Neoplasms (MPN)
About
Dr. Singh completed his Internal Medicine Residency as well as his Hematology and Oncology Fellowship at the State University of New York Upstate Medical University. His clinical interests include mismatched donor stem cell transplantation , Hereditary predisposition to hematologic malignancies and Cellular therapies. His research interests include donor selection in stem cell transplantation, Transplantation for myeloid malignancies , GVHD prophylaxis and germline predisposition to Hematological malignancies

AAMDSIF Calls for Restoration of Bone Marrow Failure Research Funding

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The Aplastic Anemia and MDS International Foundation joined 156 other members of the Defense Health Research Consortium (DHRC) in calling for Congress to restore funding in Fiscal Year 2025 for the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program (CDMRP) which includes the Bone…

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