Blood Podcast

In this week's episode, Blood editor Dr. Laurie Sehn interviews Drs. Shengwen Calvin Li and Hrishi Krishna Srinagesh on their latest articles published in Blood . Dr. Li discusses " Single-cell profiling of ANKRD26 thrombocytopenia reveals progenitor expansion and polyploid apoptosis via JUNB-p21 ". The study identifies reproducible abnormalities in progenitor expansion and increased apoptosis of...

In this week's episode, Blood podcast editor Laurie Sehn interviews Drs. Edward Cliff on his latest research published in volume 147 issue 14 of Blood . Dr. Cliff discusses " Global access to commercial CAR T-cell therapies: a cross-sectional study of health technology assessment across the G20 countries " which maps the mismatch between innovation and implementation across high-income and selecte...

In this week's episode, Blood podcast editor Dr. James Griffin interviews authors Drs. Steffen Boettcher and Robert Zeiser on their recent publications in Blood . Dr. Boettcher discusses " Bone marrow failure, somatic rescue by p53 inactivation, and enhanced leukemogenesis in germ line ERCC6L2 disease ", which provides insights to disease evolution by demonstrating that p53 loss can rescue BMF phe...

In this episode, Blood Associate Editor Dr. Jason Gotlib discusses the Review Series " The New Wave of Targeted Therapeutics for MPN’s ", with authors Drs. Stefan Constantinescu, Ann Mullally, and Marina Kremyanskaya. This Review Series covers 3 areas where exciting advances are occurring. Dr. Constantinescu discusses “ Next-generation JAK inhibitors in the treatment of myeloproliferative neoplasm...

In this week's episode, Blood editor Dr. Laura Michaelis interviews Drs. Alexander Bick and Jorge Cortes on their latest papers published in Blood . Dr. Cortes, the current EIC of Blood Global Hematology discusses " Asciminib Demonstrates Superior Efficacy and Safety in Newly Diagnosed Chronic Myeloid Leukemia in the ASC4FIRST Trial " wherein the planned secondary analysis showed a further efficac...

In this week's episode of the Blood podcast, editor Dr. James Griffin interviews Drs. Christian Gorzelanny and Rebecca Leaf on their latest articles published in this week's issue of Blood . Dr. Gorzelanny discusses compelling evidence for a new mechanism that amplifies their proinflammatory actions in " Lipid nanotubes unmask neutrophils for complement attack ", demonstrating the pathological rol...

In this week's episode, Blood editor Dr. Laura Michaelis interviews authors Drs. Marion Falabrègue and Ajai Chari on their papers published in volume 146 issue 24 of Blood . The work of Dr. Falabrègue and colleagues in " Intestinal hepcidin overexpression promotes iron deficiency anemia and counteracts iron overload via DMT1 downregulation " indicates that iron absorption from the apical surface o...

In this week's episode, Blood associate editor Dr. Laura Michaelis interviews Drs. Mark Sorial and Emmanuelle Passegue on their articles published in volume 147 issue 7 of Blood . Dr. Sorial discusses " Early time to relapse as a survival prognosticator in nodal mature T-cell lymphomas: results from the PETAL consortium " where he and his team evaluated the prognostic significance of early relapse...

This review series focuses on recent advances in resolving macro and molecular structures that have driven the field of occlusive thrombus structure and function forward. Covering multiple contributions to thrombosis, eg, platelets, factor XIII, and the contact system, the series also looks to put this new knowledge into the context of future advances in diagnostic and therapeutic tools to enhance...

In this week's episode, Blood editor Dr. Laurie Sehn interviews authors Drs. Julie Jaffray and Ulrike Philippar on their latest articles published in Blood . Dr. Jaffray discusses her CME article, " Multisite validation of a venous thrombosis risk model in critically ill children through the CHAT Consortium ", identifying patients with risks as high as 17% and taking research one step closer to th...

In this week's episode, Blood editor Dr. Laurie Sehn interviews authors Drs. Anastasios Karadimitris and Maria Carolina Florian on their papers published in Volume 147 Issue 2 of Blood . Dr. Karadimitris' paper " Off-the-shelf dual CAR-iNKT cell immunotherapy eradicates medullary and leptomeningeal high-risk KMT2A -rearranged leukemia ", discusses the success of bispecific CAR-iNKT cells targeting...

In this week's episode, Blood editor Dr. James Griffin interviews Drs. Paresh Vyas and Andrew Hantel on their research published in this week's issue of Blood . Dr. Vyas discusses his paper, " Rapid clonal selection within early hematopoietic cell compartments presages outcome to ivosidenib combination therapy ", which provided new insights as to when and how to intervene to circumvent resistance...

In this week's episode, Blood Associate editor Dr. Hervé Dombret interviews authors Drs. Sarah K. Tasian and David T. Teachey on their contributions to the How I Treat Series on acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Dr. Tasian's paper, “ How I treat Philadelphia chromosome-like acute lymphoblastic leukemia in children, adolescents, and young adults ” discusses the different classes of Ph-like ALL and revi...

In this week's episode, Blood Associate Editor, Dr. Jason Gotlib leads a discussion about the How I Treat Series commemorating the 25th anniversary of the introduction of tyrosine kinase inhibitors in CML, featuring Drs. Neil Shah, Simona Soverini, Elisabetta Abruzzese, and Yves Chalandon. The introduction of TKIs revolutionized patient outcomes in CML, turning a poor prognosis—3 to 5 years life e...

In this week's episode, Blood Associate editor Dr. Thomas Ortel interviews authors Drs. Ware Branch and J.J. Strouse on their contributions to How I Treat hematologic complications in pregnancy. Dr. Branch's paper, “ How I diagnose and treat antiphospholipid syndrome in pregnancy ” discusses the evolving clinical and laboratory features of APS, and the treatment of cases meeting ACR/EULAR classifi...

This week's episode accompanies the Review Series on Marginal Zone Lymphoma published in this week's issue of Blood . Associate editor, Dr. Philippe Armand interviews authors Dr. Juan Pablo Alderuccio and Dr. Ariela Noy on their contribution to this review series titled " The treatment of marginal zone lymphoma ". The article is crucial in highlighting the clinically and biologically heterogenous...

In this week's episode we've pulled a vault recording from 2025! Blood editor Dr. Laurie Sehn interviews authors Drs. David-Alexandre Trégouët and Johannes Schetelig on their research published in volume 146 issue 19 of Blood journal. Dr. Trégouët's study conducted a genome-wide association study supplemented by transcriptome and Mendelian randomization analyses to identify 28 loci and proteins as...

In this week's episode, Blood editor Dr. James Griffin interviews authors Drs. Vincent Muczynski and Mark Geyer on their latest research published in Blood . Dr. Muczynski's research asks if there could there be a better gene than the factor VIII (FVIII) gene to transfer for curative treatment of hemophilia A? Dr. Geyer then explores CAR T cells armed with interleukin-18 (IL-18) secretion that tar...

In this week's episode, Blood editor Dr. Laurie Sehn interviews three of the latest Blood authors: Drs. Vijay Sankaran, Ruud Delwel, Françoise Kraeber-Bodere. Two studies on the MECOM gene have been paired in this episode, analyzing new groundwork for potential novel myeloid differentiation therapies via repression of MECOM restoring enhancer mediated CEBPA expression. We'll also hear about the re...

In this Review Series episode, Blood Associate Editor, Dr. Elisabeth Battinelli discusses the Platelet Heterogeneity with authors Drs. Craig Morrell, Larry Frelinger, and Leo Nicolai.  Find the full review series in volume 146 issue 24 of  Blood . 

In this special episode, Blood editor Dr. Laura Michaelis interviews Dr. Arielle Langer and Blood Associate editor Dr. Marc Blondon for this special Maternal Health episode. In honor of the second Maternal Health compendium, both discuss their papers featured in this special collection.  Featured Articles:  β-Thalassemia minor is associated with high rates of worsening anemia in pregnancy Longitud...

 In this week's episode, Blood editor Dr. James Griffin speaks with Drs. Emanuele Zucca and Sandra Pinho about their latest articles published in Blood . Dr. Zucca discusses his second analysis of the IELSG37 trial, where findings suggested that R-CHOP21 rituximab, cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, and prednisone, administered every 21 days) may be a suboptimal frontline regimen for PMBC...

In this week's episode, Blood editor Dr. Laurie Sehn interviews authors Drs. Lorenzo Falchi and Robert Levy on their latest papers published in Blood Journal. Dr. Falchi discusses his work on an open-label, multicenter phase 1b/2 study evaluating fixed-duration epcoritamab with rituximab and lenalidomide in 108 patients with relapsed or refractory follicular lymphoma. Dr. Levy shares his work on d...

In this week's episode, Blood editor Dr. Laura Michaelis interviews authors Drs. Terri Parker and Peter Lenting on their latest papers published in Blood Journal. Dr. Lenting discusses his work on introducing a new therapeutic approach to von Willebrand disease with the development of a novel bispecific antibody (KB-V13A12) that links endogenous mouse VWF to albumin, extending VWF half-life twofol...

In this week's episode, associate editor Dr. James Griffin interviews researchers Dr. John Semple and Dr. Othman Al-Sawaf on their groundbreaking studies on transfusion-related acute lung injury and chronic lymphocytic leukemia treatment. Dr. Semple explored how mitochondrial DNA could act as a first hit in lung injury, while Dr. Al-Sawaf revealed that patient fitness may not significantly impact...