During the autumn concert, the mixed choir Chapeau raised funds for scientific research at the Erasmus MC Cancer Institute into acute myeloid leukemia for the group of Dr Jurjen Versluis.

The Landsteiner Foundation for Blood Transfusion Research (LSBR) has awarded the LSBR Anniversary Grant of € 1.6 million to the HemoTwin-BD consortium. HemoTwin-BD is a nation-wide, multidisciplinary research program aimed at understanding heterogeneity in the laboratory and bleeding phenotype of patients with bleeding disorders. Dr Ferdows Atiq and Dr Ruben Bierings, from the department of Hematology at Erasmus MC, are key members of the collaboration, overseeing the research on von Willebrand disease and von Willebrand Factor cell biology, respectively. 

We are excited to announce our new digital lecture series. This series starts on 9 February and marks 5 years of Erasmus virtual Hematology lectures!

On the 21st of November, the 22nd Dutch Chromatin Meeting took place in the KINO cinema in Rotterdam. The meeting attracted over 150 attendees from different Dutch universities, UMCs, and other research institutes.

On October 20-24 Tim van Tienhoven attended the 2025 FEBS Workshop on the Molecular and Cellular Pathways of Aging in Hematopoiesis in Crete, Greece. He had already received a grant to attend, as well as both a poster presentation and a short oral presentation. Here, he presented his work titled "Targeting mitochondria mitigates chemotherapy-induced bone marrow dysfunction."

Mandy Lauw (internist-hematologist) received the EHA YoungEHA Award during the recent European Hematology Association (EHA) congress in Milan.