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

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.

• Authors: Andreas Engert, Carlo Balduini, Anneke Brand, Bertrand Coiffier, Catherine Cordonnier, Hartmut Döhner, Thom Duyvené de Wit, Sabine Eichinger, Willem Fibbe, Tony Green, Fleur de Haas, Achille Iolascon, Thierry Jaffredo, Francesco Rodeghiero, Gilles Salles, Jan Jacob Schuringa, EHA Roadmap for European Hematology Research
• Journal: Haematologica (Haematologica) Vol. 101 Issue 2 Pg. 115-208 (02 2016) ISSN: 1592-8721 [Electronic] Italy
• PMID: 26819058 (Publication Type: Journal Article)
• Copyright: Copyright© Ferrata Storti Foundation.

Chemical References

• Antineoplastic Agents

Topics

• Antineoplastic Agents (chemical synthesis, therapeutic use)
• Blood Coagulation (drug effects)
• Combined Modality Therapy (economics, methods)
• Consensus
• Europe
• Gene Expression Profiling
• Genetic Therapy (economics, methods)
• Genome, Human
• Health Services for the Aged (supply & distribution)
• Hematologic Diseases (diagnosis, economics, pathology, therapy)
• Hematology (economics, methods)
• Hematopoiesis (drug effects, genetics)
• Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation (methods)
• Humans
• Molecular Targeted Therapy (economics, methods)