We welcome applications for this new research fellowship, a partnership between @optimal-cre.bsky.social and the Kawasaki Disease Foundation

Welcome Jamie! We're glad to have you as part of the @optimal-cre.bsky.social 😁

Today, on International Kawasaki Disease Awareness Day, we share the Top 10 KD Questions, raised by families and health professionals at last year’s Information Day, hosted with the KD Foundation and MCRI.

🔗 Read the Top 10 questions:

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Congratulations to Dr Adam Irving, Monash University, on being awarded a Cancer Research Fellowship from Cancer Council Victoria. This will support the new EpiMAP Lymphoma research project, in partnership with @lardr.bsky.social

Correspondence “When our patients go without medical care, the harm is not theoretical. It is measurable. Fear doesn’t just keep people away from clinics and EDs, it pushes patients into crisis.” “We Do Care” by Bernard E. Trappey, M.D., for Minnesota Physician Voices

Physicians throughout Minnesota bear witness to the devastation that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is wreaking. They implore physicians everywhere to raise their voices.

Read “We Do Care” by Bernard E. Trappey, MD, for Minnesota Physician Voices: nej.md/4akke1G

Community Summit 2026 | Team Telomere Team Telomere invites you to the Team Telomere Community Summit 2026: A River Runs Through Advocacy and Research, taking place July 7 to 10, 2026, in Missoula, Montana. This community experience…

👥Community Summit
A community-centered experience for individuals with TBDs, families, care partners, and bereaved community members, focused on connection, education, and time together.
Register today! teamtelomere.org/community-su...

We cannot wait to welcome our community to Missoula!

We are thrilled to announce that registration is now OPEN for the Team Telomere Scientific & Community Summit 2026, taking place July 7 to 10, 2026, in Missoula, Montana!

Beautiful day at Albert Park Lake, as part of Run for Rui, raising money for research into fetomaternal/neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia, #FNAIT.
Funds will support the vital work of the Australian NAIT Registry.
Please support us if you can!
sleapys-foundation.grassrootz.com/run-for-rui

Abstract submission is closing on 30 Jan for the 2026 International Haemovigilance Symposium.
Travel scholarships, kindly sponsored by @isbt.bsky.social, are available for participants from LMIC presenting an abstract.
More info/registration/abstracts: ihn-org.com
Hope to see many of you in Rome!

Please consider supporting Run for Rui, to fund vital research into NAIT: neonatal (fetomaternal) alloimmune thrombocytopenia.
More info here: sleapys-foundation.grassrootz.com/run-for-rui
Proceeds will support the Australian NAIT registry: www.monash.edu/medicine/sphpm/registries/nait
Thank you!

Happy New Year from LaRDR: the Lymphoma and Related Diseases Registry!
Over 10,000 people with lymphoma & CLL are now participating across Australia & New Zealand.
Thank you to everyone supporting @lardr.bsky.social including all patients, investigators, sites and our community & funding partners!

Today marks the 80th anniversary of Blood Journal. We're looking forward to commemorating this milestone throughout 2026 and hope you enjoy the new issue out now. ashpublications.org/blood/issue/... Happy new year! #Anniversary #BloodJournal

📣The ISTH recently drafted a guidance manuscript on the how to monitor and manage unfractionated heparin in practice, given the accumulating evidence from a comprehensive literature review.

Submit your comments by Jan 5: survey.alchemer.com/s3/8609925/Public-Comment-Manage-UFH

Congratulations Dr Lucy Fox, presenting the results of IBMDx - genomics studies in inherited bone marrow failure syndromes - today in the late-breaking abstract session at #ASH25

Just published: CLIP-II trial of cryopreserved platelets for cardiac surgical bleeding
doi: 10.1001/jama.2025.23355
Thanks to everyone who supported this important study!

A message we can all get behind!
Thanks @ash.hematology.org for a great meeting at #ASH25

Great opportunity to get involved!

Optimize treatment and better advocate for your patients with the Duffy-null phenotype, which lowers normal neutrophil threshold yet is often overlooked in clinical trials.

🎧 Listen now to the new HemeTalks: https://ow.ly/4F9f50XuQuz

#Hematology #Hemesky #Medsky #DANC #DuffyNull

Advancing Blood Disorder Treatments Through Precision Therapeutics In this week's episode, Blood editor Dr. Laura Michaelis interviews...

🎙️ Just published a new episode of Blood Podcast: Advancing Blood Disorder Treatments Through Precision Therapeutics. Have a listen:

Save the date! 18-20 March 2026 in Rome.
Looking forward to this! The International Haemovigilance Symposium is always an excellent and very interactive meeting.
More info soon: ihn-org.com

Congratulations, Janne! You've been a wonderful supporter of @lardr.bsky.social and the @bloodsynergy.bsky.social research. We thank you SO MUCH for your contributions!

Image showing an ISBT Award 2025 received by the Transfusion Evidence Round-Up Team

Thank you so much @isbt.bsky.social!

We are so delighted to receive this award!
www.systematicreviewinitiative.com/news/we-have...
@ericawood.bsky.social @liseestcourt.bsky.social @thrinaline.bsky.social

Throughout #Telomere Biology Disorder #Awareness Month, we are dedicating Fridays to spreading education and awareness. Each “Fact Friday,” we’ll highlight important science and how ongoing #research connects to care and advocacy. Today we are talking about what #telomeres are - check out our video!

Hope to see many of you at these upcoming @optimal-cre.bsky.social educational events on improving the use of immunoglobulins!
Everyone is welcome, and it's free to register.
More info below.

Delighted to accept the ISBT Award with Dr Allison Mo on behalf of the ISBT-SRI Transfusion Evidence Round-Up team this week in Perth!

@isbt.bsky.social @sritransfusion.bsky.social

More info on the Transfusion Evidence Round-Ups: www.isbtweb.org/resources/isbt-sri-transfusion-round-up.html

Fantastic @lardr.bsky.social open meeting today at #BLOOD2025 in collaboration with Lymphoma Australia and the Australasian Lymphoma Alliance.
Thanks to everyone who participated in person or online, and for your ongoing support of the Lymphoma and Related Diseases Registry!

Congratulations Dr Jasmine Singh on receiving the 2025 Haematology Society of Australia/NZ Albert Baikie Award, recognising the best Annual Scientific Meeting presentation by a new investigator, for "longitudinal assessment of the expansion of clonal haematopoiesis of indeterminate potential".

Wonderful to be in Perth at #BLOOD2025 and the ISBT regional congress @isbt.bsky.social with some of our Monash University Transfusion Research Unit team.
We have presentations, posters and a booth!
Have a question about our research, and/or want to collaborate? Come and visit us!

Important new study from the Australian and New Zealand Lymphoma and Related Diseases Registry, out now in Haematologica.

doi.org/10.3324/haem...

Nice work, Eliza Chung @lardr.bsky.social and @elizahawkes.bsky.social

Out now in JAMA Cardiol: Clonal haematopoiesis of indeterminate potential (CHIP) not associated with higher risk of cardiovascular disease in ASPREE trial, but more clinically significant bleeding.

doi:10.1001/jamacardio.2025.3756