BSHI

BSHI AGM 2021 (Virtual Event)
2021-09-15 10:00 - 12:00 UTC
BSHI MEMBERS ONLY. All active members should have received an invite for this virtual meeting from BSHI. Please contact carla.rosser@nhsbt.nhs.uk if you are a member and have not received an invite.
AGM Agenda:
Minutes from AGM 2020 – Deborah Sage
Chair Report – Deborah Sage
Presidential Address – Steven Marsh
Secretary Report – Richard Battle
Treasurer Report – Mian Chen
Membership Report – Marie Hampson
Professional Advisory Group Report – Natalia Diaz Burlinson
Education Board Report (including TDE and RE) – Sarah Peacock
Meeting Secretary Report – Helena Lee
AoB (including Q&A) – all members
Paul Sinnott Next Generation Scientist Award winner – Paul Wright
A number of proposed changes to our BSHI Constitution have been agreed by the committee and require your approval at the AGM. Please find attached a copy of the amended document for your reference.
Paul Wright has kindly agreed to present the work which gained him the Paul Sinnott Next Generation Scientist Award prize awarded by VHBio at EFI/BSHI 2020 (2021) with a presentation entitled “Donors possessing KIR2DL1*003 group alleles present detrimental 3-year post-transplant outcomes in T cell depleted reduced intensity conditioning haematopoietic progenitor cell transplantation​”.

ESOT 2021 Milan
2021-08-29 - 2021-09-01 | MiCo Convention Centre, Milan, Italy, Piazzale Carlo Magno, 1, 20149 Milano MI, Italy, Milan, Italy

The 34th European Federation of Immunogenetics (EFI) and 31st British Society Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics (BSHI) Conference
2021-04-21 - 2021-04-23 | Online

BTS & NHSBT Congress Live 2021
2021-02-24 - 2021-02-25
Online Event

Virtual Training Meeting
2021-02-02
Save the date: Tuesday 2nd February 2021.
BSHI TDE are organising a virtual meeting for training managers and/or assessors for BSHI Diploma coursework. If you are involved in IBMS Specialist Portfolio, BSHI Diploma, BSHI Certificate of Competence and STP training courses, you are encouraged to attend. There will be updates on each of the training programmes, and a focus on preparing evidence for the Diploma portfolio and presentation of the updated Diploma project guidance.
Registration is free but required in order to send out meeting joining instructions – registration forms will be sent out soon. If you are unable to attend live, presentations will be recorded and available after the event.

AHI 2020 Virtual Annual Meeting
2020-10-19 - 2020-10-21

UK NEQAS for H&I Participant Meeting
2020-04-02 | Aston Conference Venue, Birmingham, B4 7ET, United Kingdom

British Society for Immunology Congress 2019
2019-12-02 - 2019-12-05 | Arena and Convention Centre, Kings Dock, Liverpool Waterfront, Liverpool, L3 4FP, United Kingdom
We’re pleased to announce that the British Society for Immunology Congress 2019 will take place on 2–5 December 2019 in Liverpool, UK. This is the UK’s premier immunology event attracting over 1,000 delegates to enjoy our extensive 4-day programme of cutting edge research from leading UK and international researchers. Our Congress Committee are currently hard at work to put together an inspiring programme covering the breadth of immunology and focussing on hot topics.
We look forward to welcoming you to Liverpool and an exciting, innovative mix of the highest quality basic and translational immunology research from around the world.
If you are interested in sponsoring or exhibiting at the British Society for Immunology Congress 2019, please contact our Head of Events, Jane Sessenwein.

BSHI Training Manager and Assessor Forum
2019-10-21 | Birmingham Medical School, Birmingham, West Midlands, B15 2TH
As part of the agenda we will be demonstrating the new BSHI Essay marking scheme so strongly encourage all BSHI training managers and assessors to attend.
Further details and registration form to follow in the coming weeks.

Viva Week - Session 2
2019-10-07 - 2019-10-11

ESOT Congress 2019
2019-09-15 - 2019-09-18 | Bella Center, Center Blvd, Danimarca, Copenhagen, København, 5, 2300, Denmark
We are truly delighted to cordially invite you to be Inspired and experience real Progress at the ESOT Congress in Copenhagen, a transplant meeting of truly great scientific substance delivered in great ESOT style!
The philosophy behind every ESOT Congress is that every two years we produce a totally New Congress in content and format; ESOT Copenhagen 2019 not only follows this rule but aspires to be the best transplant congress ever!
ESOT Copenhagen 2019 is designed to be Your Congress, tailoring and targeting its content to the discipline that you serve, the stage of your career journey in transplantation and your professional aspirations. Knowledge will be delivered through a plethora of networking opportunities leading to new collaborations so that the end of the Congress will mark many new beginnings in transplantation.
We aim to explore the edge of our current practice and achievements and also challenge each other about great things that have not yet happened, ask ourselves, Why Not? and pave together the way forward. Looking at the hot topics of the Congress (which are just the appetisers for a great feast…), we will learn from history and each other, make patients active partners in our endeavours, vigorously debate our ethical conduct,take deep dives in the waters of basic and translational science so that we can bring to the surface clinical solutions, admit the moments we reached our clinical limits and explore how to push them further, debate and design innovation with realism and all in the context of our palpable and substantial professional development.
Furthermore, the ESOT award winning Digital Congress Innovations have now reached new heights and they are designed to bring people together (even if they are not physically at the Congress!), maximise their interaction and advance their knowledge.
Last but most certainly not least, all these are going to happen in Copenhagen, a dream city that can make those who adore classic fairy tales and the enthusiasts of modern miracles equally happy and in the Bella Conference Centre that is designed to make your time at the Congress Productive and Enjoyable.
Join us in Copenhagen! Be Inspired and Drive Progress!
Vassilios Papalois and Allan Rasmussen
Scientific Program Committee Chairs
The target audience for this conference includes all fields involved in health care and research with an affiliation in transplantation.
This includes but is not limited to:

Transplant surgeons

Physicians of all fields with an involvement in transplantation

Coordinators, Nurses

General surgeons and clinicians with an interest in transplantation

Transplant scientists

Nutrition and rehabilitation specialists and coordinators

Transplant pharmacists

Further, health care professionals with an involvement in treatment of organ failure, cell therapy, tissue and regenerative medicine are warmly welcome to our conference.

GRAFT Selection Workshop
2019-09-13 09:30 - 16:30 | Central Hall Westminster, Storey’s Gate, London, SW1H 9NH, United Kingdom
Session 1
Transplant Journey with updates from NHSBT, WBMDR, Anthony Nolan with guest patient speaker Katherine Cartwright
Katherine was diagnosed with AML and has subsequently had 2 stem cell transplants, a liver transplant (leading to an accidental third stem cell transplant) and has experienced GVHD and had complications along the way.
Session 2
Round Table sessions covering challenging areas in donor selection including HLA-DP; Loss of Heterozygosity; Antibodies
Lunch and networking
Session 3
Ask the Experts – topics and Q&A
New horizons in stem cell donor selection: HLA-DP as a model for functional matching
Professor Katharina Fleischhauer, MD. Director, The Institute for Experimental Cellular Therapy, Essen University Hospital
Complexities and intricacies of allogeneic transplant in the settling of HIV
Dr Andrew Innes, NIHR Clinical Lecturer and Honorary Consultant Haematologist, Imperial College London
Session 4
Presentation of Case Studies with interactive voting scenarios and discussion
Themes around the HSCT new guidelines panel discussion
Chair Dr Ann-Margaret Little, PhD, FRCPath
16.30 Summary and close
The GRAFT Selection Workshop is an opportunity to engage with the transplant community, explore the expanding field of stem cell donor selection and share knowledge and experience around finding the best donor.

Application for Viva Deadline: Session 2
2019-09-06

BSHI Diploma 2019 - Work submission deadline: Session 2
2019-07-19
Submit your work by 19th July 2019

30th BSHI Annual Conference
2019-06-26 - 2019-06-27 | College Court Conference Centre, Knighton Road, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE2 3UF, United Kingdom
Welcome to the 30th Annual British Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics Conference website. The local organisers look forward to seeing you in Leicester. This year’s conference on 26th and 27th June 2019 is being held at College Court Conference Centre, Leicester. The meeting promises an exciting scientific program, this is coming soon.

BSHI National Higher Training Meeting
2019-05-20 - 2019-05-21 | The College of Medical and Dental Science, University Of Birmingham, Edgbaston, West Midlands, B15 2TT

33rd European Immunogenetics and Histocompatibility Conference
2019-05-08 - 2019-05-11 | Centro Cultural De Belem – CCB, Praça do Império, Lisbon, 1449-003, Portugal
On behalf of the European Federation for Immunogenetics and the Local Organizing Committee, it will be our great pleasure to welcome you to the 33rd European Immunogenetics and Histocompatibility Conference, to be held in Lisbon, Portugal, from 8 to 11 May 2019.
We will have the privilege of receiving, for the first time, the prestigious scientific community of Immunogenetics and Histocompatibility (I&H) in Portugal and the European Federation of Immunogenetics (EFI) and will then be able to welcome everyone as part of the “EFI family”.
“Functional Immunogenetics: the historical challenge” is the motto for the 33rd EFI Conference that will be held in Lisbon, also known as the “City of the Seven Hills” or the “Queen of the Sea”.
This takes us back to the era of the great maritime discoveries in the XIV and XV centuries when the city was at the center of the Eastern and Western maritime trade, bustling with people from many different parts of the world.
We are confident that the meeting will reflect this dynamism and the expanded vision of new frontiers in the Immunogenetics World.
Participants will have the opportunity to visit Lisbon, a friendly and welcoming city, considered by some to be the first global village in the world. In Lisbon, you will find a perfect combination of tradition and vibrant modernity.
The Scientific Program is being carefully prepared in close collaboration with the EFI Committees, to meet the highest standards of EFI conferences and to create the necessary conditions for the sharing of science and, at the same time, allowing time for you to thoroughly enjoy your stay in Lisbon.
The conference will take place in the modern Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB), in one of the most emblematic areas of Lisbon – Belém – home to the famous pastry “Pastéis de Belém, with views over the Tejo River and distinctive monuments (Unesco World Heritage Sites) which recall the time of the “Portuguese Sea Discoveries”, a period of great challenges and achievements for the Portuguese people.
We will be delighted to welcome all participants to the 33rd EFI Conference “Functional Immunogenetics: the historical challenge”– Lisbon 2019, hoping that your active participation will create a unique and memorable conference.
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Enjoy the meeting and Portugal!
​Maria Rosário Sancho António Martinho

Viva Week - Session 1
2019-04-29 - 2019-05-03

Application to Viva deadline: Session 1
2019-03-22

BSHI Higher Training Meeting
2019-03-20 - 2019-03-21 | Birmingham Medical School, Birmingham, West Midlands, B15 2TH

BTS and NHSBT Joint Annual Conference
2019-03-06 - 2019-03-08 | Harrogate Convention Centre, King's Rd, Harrogate, Yorkshire, HG1 5LA, United Kingdom
The British Transplantation Society and NHSBT Organ Donation and Transplantation have joined forces to run joint congress at the Harrogate Convention Centre from Wednesday 6th to Friday 8th March 2019.
The theme of the Congress is Communication and the aim of the Congress is to unite clinicians, surgeons, laboratory scientists, nurses, transplant coordinators and all those interested in all aspects of organ transplantation and donation.

The first day of Congress will include joint sessions aimed at all sectors of the community, with the Thursday programme being split into more dedicated and directed sessions for the BTS and NHSBT. Friday will continue with the BTS dedicated programme.

BSHI Diploma 2019 - Work submission deadline: Session 1
2019-01-25
Submit your work submission prior to 25th January 2019.
