The European Working Group of MDS and SAA in children (EWOG-MDS/SAA) is an international cooperative study group, which is dedicated to improving care and outcome of children and adolescents with myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS), predisposition syndromes to myeloid malignancies, juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia (JMML) and other rare myeloproliferative syndromes, and severe aplastic anemia and rare inherited bone marrow failure syndromes.
The paper of Sahoo S., Wlodarski M et al 'Clinical evolution, genetic landscape and trajectories of clonal hematopoiesis in SAMD9/SAMD9L syndromes', has been published in Nature Medicine on 07 October 2021. The publication is a milestone for our EWOG group, thanks to all who have contributed to it.
The DOI number for the paper is 10.1038/s41591-021-01511-6. Once your paper has been published online, it will be available at the following URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01511-6
The 9th International Symposium on MDS and SAA in Childhood, 2021, Athens
Dear Colleagues and Friends,
we wish to thank you for your participation in the 9th Symposium of EWOG-MDS/EWOG-SAA, which was held as a Hybrid Symposium on September 30 to October 2, 2021 in Athens. We were delighted to host over 190 participants from around the world in a very stimulating and enriching program.
In particular, we are grateful to the European Joint Programme Rare Diseases and to GATA2-HuMo Consortium to contribute with the GATA2 Workshop to the success of the Symposium. In addition, all abstracts submitted will be published in a special edition of Cellular and Molecular Pediatrics and already accessible https://molcellped.springeropen.com/articles/supplements/volume-8-supplement-1.
JMML Meeting January 2020, Freiburg
The internal JMML Meeting took place in January 2020 (21.-22.1.2020) in Freiburg, Germany. Detailed information (talks, protocol, some pics) can be found in the members area. Topis were among others Implications of the JMML NGS panel for genetic classification, NGS and JMML subclones, DNA Methylation, RNA Studies, and the outcome after 1st and 2nd HSCT.
EWOG-Working Meeting 2019, Prague
The 33rd EWOG-MDS/SAA Working Meeting took place during the SIOP Europe 2019 Annual Meeting in Prague, on the 20th and 21st May. On the SIOP-website you can still find the scientific program and some photos taking during the meeting.
We thank Jan Stary for hosting us during this well organized symposium. If you want to see some photos of the EWOG-sessions and our social-dinner in Mala Strana ("Lesser Town") of Prague please enter the members area.