Brussels/Salamanca, January 9, 2017. The Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) has approved HARMONY, a project that aims to foster better access and care for patients with various hematologic malignancies (HM) with the use of big data. The project is made up of 51 partners from 11 European countries, including 7 pharmaceutical companies. Other organisations such as…
At the ESMO 2016 Congress held in Copenhagen between 7th-11th October, Dr Katja Weissel, from the Haematology and Oncology Department of Medicine at University Hospital Tuebingen (Germany), presented the results of the CASTOR study, a phase III randomised controlled study of daratumumab, bortezomib and dexamethasone (DVd) compared with bortezomib and dexamethasone (Vd) in patients with…
MPE, in collaboration with other patient organisations, is conducting a project to analyse legal agreements of pharmaceutical companies with patient advocates. The project will make suggestions for simpler, more understandable agreements that would sufficiently reflect and protect the interests of both parties.
Ixazomib (Ninlaro®) has received a positive recommendation from the Committee for Human Medicinal Products (CHMP) within the European Medicines Agency (EMA) for its use in relapsed myeloma patients. The decision follows an initial negative CHMP recommendation that was appealed by the pharmaceutical company, Takeda.
Myeloma Patients Europe (MPE), in close collaboration with Myeloma UK, and along with almost 30 member and non-member associations across Europe, has submitted a letter to the Committee for Human Medicinal Products (CHMP) within the European Medicines Agency (EMA) to encourage them to reconsider the negative recommendation for ixazomib, and provide information to the appeal…
It is with great sadness that we share with you that our friend, colleague and Board member serving as secretary Mrs Christa Kolbe- Geipert passed away last Saturday, 23rd July 2016.
Myeloma Patients Europe will hold an online webinar to review the most relevant myeloma updates presented at the annual meeting of the European Hematology Association that took place in Copenhagen in June 2016. The talk will be given by Dr María Victoria Mateos, PhD. Director of the Myeloma Unit University Hospital of Salamanca-IBSAL Salamanca, Spain
MPE will be present at the XXXVI World Congress of the International Society of Hematology, hosted by the British Society of Haematology that will take place between the 18 and 21 of April in the Scottish city of Glasgow.
