Blood Podcast

In this week’s episode, we discuss the impact of silent cerebral infarction in patients with immune mediated thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (or iTTP) in clinical remission, how the survival of leukemia stem cells is highly dependent on oxidative phosphorylation in the mitochondria, and targeting iron import as a potential therapeutic approach in aggressive natural killer cell leukemia (or ANKL).

In this week's episode, we’ll learn more about poverty and relapse risk in children with ALL, discuss eligibility criteria and enrollment of diverse racial and ethnic populations in multiple myeloma clinical trials, and learn more about clonal hematopoiesis in VEXAS syndrome.

In this week's episode, we'll discuss if some patients with relapsed or refractory primary mediastinal B-cell lymphoma can be cured by checkpoint blockade alone. Next, autologous CAR T cells are highly effective, yet not always feasible in children with relapsed or refractory B-cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Lastly, we'll discuss ironing out beta-thalassemia during pregnancy.

In this week's episode, we’ll discuss the findings from a study attempting gene therapy for WHIM syndrome for the first time, learn more about the fate of hematopoietic stem cells after transplantation, and discuss the role of C-terminal FGF23 peptides in iron conservation.

In this week's episode, we'll discuss new evidence on the critical role of hepcidin, the master regulator of iron metabolism, in the pathogenesis of polycythemia vera. Next, costimulatory molecules regulate mechanisms of CAR T cell dysfunction. Finally, we'll discuss how TREM2 is a novel receptor for IL-34, promoting differentiation of normal and leukemic myeloid cells. 

In this week’s episode we’ll report on the findings from a phase 2 trial of bone marrow transplantation as initial therapy for patients with severe aplastic anemia, discuss the utility of a PET radiomics-based model in predicting outcomes in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, and learn more about macrophage metabolic rewiring in sickle cell disease.

In this week’s episode we will review no survival benefit for vincristine/steroid pulses in contemporary studies of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (or ALL). Next, the rheumatology drug abatacept may be a promising strategy for the treatment of acute graft-versus-host disease (or GVHD). Finally, we'll discuss the hemorrhage risk of dasatinib therapy.

In this week’s episode, we'll discuss how patients with relapsed or refractory Hodgkin lymphoma survival outcomes have improved after development of several novel agents. Next, precision engineering of therapeutic T cells through extragenic safe harbors. Finally, using a single-cell atlas to map features of imatinib resistance in diagnostic CML bone marrow, investigators present gene expression signatures predictive of response to TKI therapy.

In this week’s episode we’ll discuss the findings from a study exploring the combination of concurrent pembrolizumab, adriamycin, vinblastine, and dacarbazine in newly diagnosed classical Hodgkin lymphoma, learn more about the effects of targeting the CD40/CD40-ligand axis in Waldenström Macroglobulinemia, and review the findings from a study aimed at improving the bone marrow homing of CAR-cytokine induced killer cells in AML.