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Registration now open - BCNI Symposium 2026

Registration for the Blood Cancer Network Ireland (BCNI) Symposium is now open.

The meeting will take place on 22nd May 2026 at The Hardiman Hotel, Galway. Registration is free of charge.

To register and see the programme, please follow this link:
https://universityofgalwaybcni.clr.events/event/140023#

The programme features an excellent line-up of invited speakers, including:

• Rodger Tiedemann (University of Auckland, New Zealand): Identifying and characterizing the cells of origin in multiple myeloma
• Anastasios Karadimitris (Imperial College London, UK): Off-the-shelf dual CAR-iNKT cell immunotherapy in high-risk KMT2A-rearranged leukemia
• Nana Talvard-Balland (University Medical Center Freiburg, Germany): Menin inhibition regulates T cell response and GVL by endogenous retrovirus induction in AML
• Sara Gandolfi (University of Helsinki, Finland): Functional and genomic determinants of natural killer cell functionality in blood cancers
• Anita Souza (Medical College of Wisconsin, USA): Use of real-world data to drive rare hematologic disease research—challenges, lessons learned, opportunities
• Carrie Thompson (Mayo Clinic, Rochester, USA): Patient- versus clinician-reported symptoms in the POLARIX study of DLBCL