Scientific report 2024 of the Lymphoma Working Party (LWP)

The new board of the Lymphoma Working Party has been designated after the 2024 Annual Meeting in Glasgow. The transition had been officialised in Paris on June 5, 2024.The elected chair Ali Bazarbachi has chosen to work with two secretaries: Charalampia Kyriakou as secretary for the first two years with Yasmina Serroukh as vice-secretary. It has been agreed that these roles will be switched after two years. 

The first innovation of the new board has been the introduction of sub-committees (with two co-leaders for each) with the following topics:

• Mantle cell lymphoma (Olivier Hermine and Peter Dreger)
• Large B cell lymphoma (Catherine Thieblemont and Bertram Glass)
• Immunotherapy and CAR T cells (Anna Ossami Saidy and Remy Dulery)
• Hodgkin (Anna Sureda and Alina Tanase)
• T cell lymphoma (Norbert Schmitz and Ghandi Damaj)
• Indolent B cell lymphoma (Silvia Montoto and Luca Castagna)
• Waldenstrom’s macroglobulinemia (Nour Moukalled and Charalampia Kyriakou)

Each subcommittee meets online every three months with LWP members, study coordinators and statisticians to discuss the progress of ongoing projects and approve new projects. All EBMT members are welcome to attend. In addition to these frequent one-hour meetings, the lymphoma working party members meet in person twice a year: at the Annual Meeting in the spring and at the educational meeting in the fall.

This way of working has immediately dynamized the productivity  which resulted in a large number of poster and oral presentations at ASH 2024 (see the news article). These abstracts will hopefully lead to publications in 2025, as will the other ongoing projects in the writing and submission phases.