Pediatric

The impact of ABO compatibility on allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation outcomes: a contemporary and comprehensive study from the transplant complications working party of the EBMT

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Abstract The role of ABO blood group system mismatch on allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (allo-HCT) outcomes is controversial since current publications of large datasets are lacking. We retrospectively analyzed 30,487 patients transplanted between 2010 and 2021…

Status Update Support is Growing to Restore Funding to CDMRP and BMFRP Research Programs

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Status Update
Thanks to the efforts of our AAMDSIF bone marrow failure community and coalition partners, a bipartisan group of 105 U.S. House and 29 Senate members urged their leaders to restore funding to the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs ( CDMRP) including the Bone…

Kenneth R. Cooke, MD

Institution
Johns Hopkins University
Physician Status
accepting new patients
Primary Disease Area of Focus
Graft Versus Host Disease (GVHD)
Pediatric
About
Dr. Cooke is Director of the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center’s Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplantation Program. Prior to his appointment at Johns Hopkins, Dr. Cooke headed the Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplantation Program at Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital, and University Hospitals Case Medical Center, in Cleveland, Ohio. He also co-directed the Hematologic Disorders Program of the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center at Case Western Reserve University. A nationally recognized transplantation immunology expert, Dr. Cooke focuses primarily on new strategies to prevent and treat graft

AAMDSIF Calls for Restoration of Bone Marrow Failure Research Funding

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The Aplastic Anemia and MDS International Foundation joined 156 other members of the Defense Health Research Consortium (DHRC) in calling for Congress to restore funding in Fiscal Year 2025 for the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program (CDMRP) which includes the Bone…

Pre-transplant inflammation and its associations with acute GvHD and mortality in pediatric allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation patients

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Abstract In this explorative study we aimed to identify inflammatory serum proteins measured before allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) that are associated with acute Graft-versus-Host Disease (aGvHD) and mortality in pediatric HSCT recipients. We measured…
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