Scientific information

Meet-the-Expert sessions – € 10 PER TICKET

Meet-the-Expert sessions are held on Friday, June 8 and Saturday, June 9, at 07.00 hours. In total 17 Meet-the-Expert sessions will be organized. The number of participants is limited to 25 persons per session in order to guarantee the opportunity of intensive interaction with leading experts in the field.
Pre-registration for these sessions is necessary and can be done onsite at the congress. Tickets can be purchased during registration hours at the Meetthe- Expert desk in the Registration area. Meet-the-Expert tickets will be handled on a “first come, first served” basis and the price per ticket is € 10,-. Croissants, coffee and tea will be served in the room.

Please note that the EHA shuttle buses will run from various meeting
points (as of 06.15 hours on Friday and Saturday) to the Neue Messe
to be in time for the Meet-the-Expert sessions.

Poster Presentations

The main goal of the poster walks is to gain a maximum benefit from the scientific work presented and to create a lively interaction between poster authors, moderators (senior experts in the field) and interested congress participants. Poster-walks will be organized during the poster sessions on Friday, June 8 (17.45-19.00 hours) and Saturday, June 9 (18.00-19.15 hours). Poster authors and moderators are requested to be present at the first poster in their poster session, at the beginning of the presentation time (17.45 hours). Snacks and drinks will be served!

Poster area & poster desk

Poster sessions will take place in the poster area (see floor plan, page 264). The poster desk is located behind the exhibtion.

Poster mounting

Posters should be mounted during the indicated set-up time (see schedule below).
Posters should be mounted with double sided tape or Velcro tape.
Assistance and material for mounting the posters will be available from set-up time (see page 190), at the poster desk behind the exhibition.

Poster viewing and presentation

Posters will be on display in the poster area for three days and will be open for viewing during exhibition hours.
Poster authors are requested to be present at their poster during the entire presentation time (see below) to attend the Poster-walks. During these walks, an expert in the field will discuss posters in the same poster session with interested congress participants.

Removing your poster material

Material should be removed before 14.00 hours on Sunday, June 10.
If posters are not removed by this time, your poster will be removed and destroyed by the congress organizer.

Poster Presentation Schedule

	Poster Session I – Friday, June 8
Set-up	Friday, June 8, 08.00 - 09.30 hours
Viewing	Friday, June 8, 09.30 hours until
	Sunday, June 10, 12.00 hours
Presentation during Poster-walk	17.45-19.00 hours
Dismantling	Sunday, June 10, 12.00 - 14.00 hours

	Poster Session II –Saturday, June 17
Set-up	Friday, June 8, 08.00 - 09.30 hours
Viewing	Friday, June 8, 09.30 hours until
	Sunday, June 10, 12.00 hours
Presentation during Poster-walk	18.00-19.15 hours
Dismantling	Sunday, June 18, 12.00 - 14.00 hours

On-line Disclosures

As part of the EHA CME accreditation procedures, all speakers and chairs have been requested to disclose any personal or prejudicial interest. To view the disclosures of speakers and chairs of the 12th Congress, please go to: http://cme.ehaweb.org and click on the Disclosure tab. In case of any questions, please send an e-mail to cme@ehaweb.org

Program Changes

Actual program changes will be indicated on the message boards located throughout the congress center.

Speaker Ready Room and PowerPoint presentations

Equipment to enable a final check of your PowerPoint presentation is available at the Speaker Ready Room close to the registration area (see floor plan, page 264).

Opening hours: Speaker Ready Room

Thursday, June 7	07.00 - 18.00 hours
Friday, June 8	06.30 - 18.00 hours
Saturday, June 9	06.30 - 18.00 hours
Sunday, June 10	07.30 - 12.00 hours

(see floor plan, page 264)

Only PowerPoint presentations will be accepted. To ensure that the presentations are well prepared, we strongly advise you to bring your presentation AT LEAST 3 HOURS before the start of your presentation to the Speaker Ready Room. You can bring your presentation on CD-Rom, DVD or USB memory stick. You may also bring your own laptop (just for copying your presentation onto the network). The use of your own laptop during your presentation is prohibited.

EHA Awards and Grants

José Carreras Award / Lecture During the congress the José Carreras Award 2007 will be presented to Professor R. Bertina (University Medical Center Leiden, Leiden, The Netherlands). He will present the José Carreras honorary lecture. This lecture is entitled: “Thrombophilia: from single gene disorder to complex disease” and takes place on Friday, June 8 from 13.15-14.00 hours.

EHA-José Carreras Young Investigator Fellowship & EHA Fellowships

The presentation of the winners of the EHA-José Carreras Foundation Young Investigator Fellowship and EHA Fellowships 2007 takes place immediately after the official opening on Friday, June 8 from 13.00-13.15 hours.

EHA Travel grants

A total of 80 travel grants have been awarded to scientists within 15 years of graduation or with less than 10 years post-doc experience and complete applications according to the mean score of abstracts.

Website

Up-to-date information regarding the congress program, including all abstracts, is available at the congress section of the EHA website: www.ehaweb.org

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