9th European Conference on Infections in Leukaemia (ECIL)

Dear ECIL Partners,

Following the 9th European Conference on Infections in Leukaemia that has been held virtually on Thursday September 16th and Friday September 17th, we are pleased to inform you that the final recommendations of the working groups that presented their work during ECIL 9 are now available.

You will find them under the « resources » section of the ECIL web platform. If you have any comment, please send them to each group leaders before November 30th:

Covid19 in Hematology-Oncology patients:

– Epidemiology and risk factors – final slide set (pdf file) – Livio Pagano (Pagano@unicatt.it)

– Viral biology and diagnosis – final slide set (pdf file) – Hans Hirsch (hirsch@unibas.ch)

– Clinical symptoms and Infection control – final slide set (pdf file) – Marie Lilienfeld-Toal (von_Lilienfeld-Toal@med.uni-jena.de)

– Therapy – final slide set (pdf file) – Malgorzata Mikulska (mikulska@unige.it)

– Vaccine – final slide set (pdf file) – Per Ljungman (ljungman@ki.se)

2) Infections in AML and ALL patients treated with new molecules and antibodies – final slide set (pdf file) – Leaders: Georg Maschmeyer (Georg.Maschmeyer@klinikumevb.de) and Thierry Calandra (thierry.calandra@chuv.ch)

To access the « resources » section of the ECIL web platform, please find below your login valid until December 1st.

Link to access the plateform: https://www.ecil-leukaemia.com/en/

Login : EORTC

Password : 3g40afig3V

The slide sets are open for public consultation so we would encourage you to share this information as widely as possible within your society and use them in your presentations for educational purpose at local, national and international levels. This is essential to increase the visibility of our Group.

Please submit questions or suggestions by email to the secretariat (ecil@gl-events.com) or, if you prefer, directly to the group leaders.

Yours sincerely,

On behalf of the Organization Committee of ECIL 9:

• Thierry Calandra (Lausanne, Switzerland)
• Simone Cesaro (Verona, Italy)
• Catherine Cordonnier (Créteil, France)
• Rafael de la Camara (Madrid, Spain)
• Peter Donnelly (Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
• Hermann Einsele (Würzburg, Germany)
• Raoul Herbrecht (Strasbourg, France)
• Hans Hirsch (Basel, Switzerland)
• Per Ljungman (Stockholm, Sweden)
• Johan Maertens (Leuven, Belgium)
• Georg Maschmeyer (Potsdam, Germany)
• Malgorzata Mikulska (Genova, Italy)
• Livio Pagano (Roma, Italy)
• Jan Styczynski (Bydgoszcz, Poland)

ECIL secretariat
ecil@gl-events.com