It is a great pleasure to welcome you on behalf of our society to the 6th International Transplant Course.

It is now the second time that this meeting is offered as virtual event providing in particular all young transplant physicians and nurses working in the field of transplantation to join the meeting from wherever you are. The meeting covers traditionally a broad, concise and up-to-date overview of all relevant topics in Transplantation. The lectures are comprehensive and informative, presented by experts in their respective fields.

The event will cover topics such as basic principles of transplant immunology and donor selection, cellular therapies, acute and chronic GVHD, early and late complications, as well as management of post-transplant infections. Several sessions focus on the management of diseases with a classical transplant indication such as AML, ALL, MDS, and lymphomas in adults and children. The non-malignant disease topics will cover immunodeficiencies and autoimmune diseases, hemoglobinopathies and aplastic anemia. Last but not least, the Physicians Program will close with talks on JACIE and markers of quality of transplantation and will be followed by an exciting Nurses Program that you will hear about in due course.

The faculty consists of highly esteemed transplant experts, including the current president of our society Nicolaus Kröger, our past-president Mohamad Mohty, past-secretary and host of our past EBMT Annual Meeting, Rafael Duarte, Chair of the Cellular Therapy and Immunobiology Working Party (CTIWP) Christian Chabannon, and Enric Carreras, editor and project leader of the extremely successful EBMT handbook, to name just a few.

During the sessions, participants will have ample opportunity to ask questions and interact with the faculty. All presentations will of course be available online for two months after the end of the meeting, until the 3rd of November 2021.

Enjoy the meeting!

Selim Corbacioglu
Scientific Council Chair of the EBMT