At the 2022 American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting, Dr. Shernan Holtan, Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota Medical School, presented a late-breaking abstract on the BMT CTN 1703 trial of post-transplant cyclophosphamide, tacrolimus, and mycophenolate mofetil as graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) prophylaxis after allogenic hematopoietic cell transplantation. Prior to the presentation, she sat down with Oncology Data Advisor to preview the trial's promising results and its potential to transform practice for GVHD.  

At the recent American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting, updated results were presented for the SGN35-027 study of brentuximab vedotin plus nivolumab and chemotherapy for advanced-stage classical Hodgkin lymphoma. One of its authors, Dr. Mitul Gandhi of Virginia Cancer Specialists, sat down with Oncology Data Advisor while there to discuss the importance of the trial's results and the next steps for improving upon the standard of care for advanced Hodgkin lymphoma.  

At the recent American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting, Dr. Ola Oluwole of Vanderbilt University Medical Center, sat down with Oncology Data Advisor to discuss two of his abstracts on prophylactic corticosteroid use for patients receiving axicabtagene ciloleucel and the role of cytokine release syndrome in the efficacy of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy.  

At the recent American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting, Dr. Habte Yimer of Texas Oncology sat down with Oncology Data Advisor to elaborate on the promising results of brentuximab vedotin for patients with advanced-stage classical Hodgkin lymphoma, including the most recent data and future directions for the trial.  

At the recent American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting, Dr. Ira Zackon sat down with Oncology Data Advisor to discuss his abstract regarding real-world treatment patterns and survival outcomes among patients with myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS), including ways for making clinical trial data applicable for patients treated in the community oncology setting.  

At the recent American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting, Oncology Data Advisor met with Dr. Hun Lee of MD Anderson to discuss the two abstracts that he presented there. Dr. Lee provided an update on the promising data for zilovertamab plus ibrutinib for patients with mantle cell lymphoma (MCL), marginal zone lymphoma (MZL), and chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), and for brentuximab vedotin plus nivolumab and chemotherapy for patients with Hodgkin lymphoma.  

At the recent American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Dr. Irving Weissman, Director of the Institute of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine at Stanford University, received the 2022 Wallace H. Coulter Award for Lifetime Achievement in Hematology. In this interview, Dr. Weissman tells the story of how he entered the field, describes the monumental contributions he has made in hematology and oncology, and shares advice for medical students who are interested in becoming involved in basic science research.  

In January 2022, Dr. Amir Fathi, Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Program Director of the Center for Leukemia at Massachusetts General Hospital, served as faculty for Therapy of B-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL): an Evolving Landscape, a session presented during the ODACon Rare Hematologic Malignancies Symposium. Recently, numerous significant updates in both ALL and acute myeloid leukemia (AML) were presented at the 2022 American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting in New Orleans. In this interview, Dr. Fathi elaborates on these exciting developments in the ever-changing treatment landscape for acute leukemia.  

At the recent American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Dr. Irving Weissman, Director of the Institute of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine at Stanford University, received the 2022 Wallace H. Coulter Award for Lifetime Achievement in Hematology. In this interview, Dr. Weissman tells the story of how he entered the field, describes the monumental contributions he has made in hematology and oncology, and shares advice for medical students who are interested in becoming involved in basic science research.  

At the recent 64th American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Dr. Manni Mohyuddin, Assistant Professor at the University of Utah Huntsman Cancer Institute, sat down with Oncology Data Advisor to discuss the multiple myeloma research he was involved with at this year's meeting. Dr. Mohyuddin elaborates on his abstracts regarding the prognostic value of (11;14) translocation in multiple myeloma, the characterization of survival end points in clinical trials, and ways to improve the quality of news reporting of oncology clinical trials.  

At the recent 64th American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Dr. Luke Walker, Chief Medical Officer of Harpoon Therapeutics, sat down with Oncology Data Advisor to discuss the results of a phase 1 trial of HPN217, a B-cell maturation antigen (BCMA)–targeting T-cell engager, which were presented at the meeting. Dr. Walker delves into the efficacy that HPN217 demonstrated in patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma, including its tolerability and low risk of cytokine release syndrome (CRS).  

At the recent American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting, Ajai Chari, MD, the Director of Research in the Multiple Myeloma Program at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, sat down with Oncology Data Advisor to discuss his presentation regarding the phase 1/2 results of the MonumenTAL-1 study. This study researches the possible benefit of talquetamab, a bispecific antibody, in patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma.  

At the recent 64th American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Dr. Samer Al Hadidi, Assistant Professor at the University of Arkansas, sat down with Oncology Data Advisor to discuss the multiple myeloma research that he presented. Dr. Al Hadidi elaborates on his studies regarding the wait list for patients who are eligible to receive chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy and the variability of definitions of high-risk disease in myeloma clinical trials.  

At the recent 64th American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting, Dr. Robert Rifkin, Medical Oncologist and Hematologist at Rocky Mountain Cancer Centers in Denver, Colorado, sat down with Oncology Data Advisor to discuss the research that he presented, titled Impact of COVID-19 on Treatment Patterns and Management of Multiple Myeloma: Insights from the Connect^® MM Registry.  

At the 2022 American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting, Dr. Ian Bouligny, Hematology/Oncology Fellow at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Massey Cancer Center, spoke with Oncology Data Advisor about his abstract regarding health care disparities faced by Black patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Dr. Bouligny explains the factors that contribute to treatment disparities and shares strategies for equalizing health care accessibility on both the local and the national levels.  

At the recent American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting, Shakira J. Grant, MBBS, an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, sat down with Oncology Data Advisor to discuss her research she presented, "If You Don't Trust Your Doctor That Much…You'd Feel Less Confident Doing a Research Study": Factors Influencing Black Patient Participation in Hematology Trials.

At the recent American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting, Ariela Marshall, MD, Director of the Women's Hemostasis and Thrombosis Program and Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine at Penn Medicine, sat down with Oncology Data Advisor to talk about the ASH Women in Hematology Working Group, a group committed to career advances and leadership opportunities for women in hematology.