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ASH Directions
Mapping the Road to Progress in Lymphoma Research
An Update from the ASH Meeting on Lymphoma Biology
To review the state of science in lymphoma biology, the American Society of Hematology (ASH) organized
the ASH Meeting on Lymphoma
Biology in August 2014. More than
350 lymphoma experts from around
the world convened in Colorado
Springs to share cutting-edge findings in the field and set the course of
future lymphoma research.
“One of the goals of this
meeting was to work together as
scientists to develop a roadmap
for lymphoma investigation —
determining where the roadblocks
were that were preventing us from
making transformative breakthroughs, and then determining
how we could overcome these
bottlenecks,” David Weinstock,
MD, co-chair of the Meeting on
Lymphoma Biology, told ASH
Clinical News. “I think we made
great strides at this year’s meeting.”
Those discussions have now been
consolidated into a “roadmap” for
future discovery in lymphoma biology, recently published as a Letter
to the Editor in the March 26, 2015,
edition of Blood, and authored by
Dr. Weinstock and members of the
Meeting on Lymphoma Biology
Steering Committee. This map
could inform allocations for increasingly competitive national funding,
as well as direct advocacy efforts
from ASH a