Gilead Sponsored Dinner Symposium: CAR T-cell therapy in R/R LBCL: Practical insights for contemporary clinical practice
| Monday, October 19, 2026 |
| 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM |
Details
Doors open at 18:30, session 19:00 - 21:30
This Dinner Symposia is being held offsite.
CAR T-cell therapy offers the potential for durable remission in patients with R/R LBCL, yet many patients still miss the opportunity to benefit. Join international experts as they explore how clinicians can optimise access, treatment timing, and long-term outcomes through evidence-based, real-world clinical practice. This session is free to attend, but space is limited.
Speaker
Dr Ana Maria Sureda Balari
Head of the Hematology Department and Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Programme
Catalan Institute of Oncology - Duran i Reynals Hospital
CAR T-cell therapy in R/R LBCL: Practical insights for contemporary clinical practice
Biography
Anna Sureda, (MD, PhD) is nowadays the Head of the Clinical Hematology Department of Institut Català d’Oncologia – Hospitalet, Barcelona.
She had previously been a Senior Consultant in Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona (from January 1991 to December 2010) and a Senior Consultant focused on lymphomas and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) at Addenbrookes–Cambridge University Hospital, UK (December 2010 – December 2012).
Anna Sureda has focused her career on clinical investigations into the treatment of Hodgkin’s lymphoma, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and multiple myeloma patients evaluating novel therapies such as immunotherapy combined with stem-cell transplantation.
Anna Sureda was appointed Chairperson of the Lymphoma Working Party (LWP) of the European Group for Blood and Marrow Transplantation (EBMT) from March 2004 to March 2010 and Secretary of the same organization from March 2010 to March 2016. She was elected co-chair of the Lymphoma Committee of the Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research (CIBMTR) and has served the organization in this position from February 2015 to February 2019.
She was subsequently appointed as member of a large non-US Transplant Center in the Advisory Committee of the CIBMTR (from February 2019).
Anna Sureda has been President of the Spanish Society of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation and Cellular Therapy (GETH-TC) and, from March 2022 till March 2026, President of the EBMT.
Anna Sureda is a regular reviewer of several peer reviewed journals (Blood, Annals of Oncology, Bone Marrow Transplantation, The Hematology Journal, The European Journal of Hematology y Annals of Hematology) and has co-authored more than 400 manuscripts.
