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    Meral Beksac, MD (she/her/hers)

    Professor of Hematology
    Ankara University
    Ankara, Turkey

    Meral Beksaç MD is the director of Department of Hematology at Ankara University, Turkey in addition to the Unrelated Donor Registry and the recently FACT/NETCORD accredited Cord Blood Bank. She has been actively involved in investigator initiated or pharma sponsored Phase II-III clinical trials since 1992, initially within the auspices of EORTC-LCG and most recently in collaboration with European Myeloma Network.

    She has been visiting scientist or clinician in various Institutions including Divisions of Hematology / Bone Marrow Transplantation at the Karolinska Hospital, Sweden (1983-1984), Heidelberg University, Royal Marsden Hospital, University College Hospital and various institutions in USA. Apart from the pre-clinical studies and clinical trials, her field of research is focused on immune-genetics of plasma cell disorders and expansion of HSC or NK cells from cord blood.

    She is member of Turkish Society of Hematology(TSH), EHA, ASH, EBMT, ASBMT, IMS and IMF. She is currently the president of the ”Turkish Bone Marrow Transplantation Foundation” has chaired “Myeloma” and “Immunohematology Subcommittees of the Turkish Society of Hematology”. She has pioneered the collaboration between Clinical teams, publishing the first Turkish prospective randomized trials in AML and Myeloma in Turkey. She currently acting as the chair of the Myeloma subcommittee of TSH, vice-chair of the “Balkan Myeloma Study Group” and also the Plasma Cell Disorders Subcommittee of EBMT-CMWP. Also, serves on editorial board of scientific journals, has published many book chapters, more than 250 original papers in peer-reviewed journals with more than 26 000 citations (H index:61 ), is editor and author of the book Bone Marrow and Stem Cell Transplantation, published by Springer in 2007 (first ed) and 2014(second ed). She has been an elected member of the Turkish Academy of Sciences following its foundation in 1994. Meral Beksac has served in the EHA Scientific Program Committee, for a term (2013-2016).

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