The new board has started its work as of January 2021. We are happy to announce the new board members and functions as follow:

Mathias Hauri-Hohl, MD, working place at the University Children’s Hospital Zurich, is elected new to the board. He is taking on the secretary duties. Francoise Solly, working Place at CHUV, joined as new regular board member. Ulrike Bacher was re-elected for a secondary board term. New in the function of treasurer will Julia Engels take care of the financial plan of the SCS.

We want to give special thanks to Michaela Fux (former treasurer) and Ewa Dudkiewicz (former secretary) for their work during their board participation in the last years!

The 1st virtual meeting could successfully take place online on the 3rd of November. Laura Vella presented a very exciting insight into COVID 19 immune monitoring of adults and children and additionally stimulated by another component of the immune system highlighted in the talk of Thibaud Spinette. These talks as well as the followed round table discussion is available in the member area of the homepage. There it will also be possible to have again a look at the very detailed and good overview of the CAR T therapy by Thomas Matthes and to get more information about the current multicentre activity of the working group on CART T companion diagnostic in flow.
The information about the General Assembly will also be available soon and of course we will inform you about the new board members and functions as soon as possible. So just drop by again soon.

The next SCS meeting will take place virtually on November 3rd 2020, from 1.15pm.

We will discuss very actual topics: “Immune monitoring in COVID-19” patients and “CAR-T cell monitoring”. There will be talks by MD-PhD Laura Vella, Division of Infectious Disease at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and PhD Tibaud Spinette, Department of BioMedical Research, Inselspital Bern on COVID-19 and Prof. Dr. Thomas Matthes, Department of Hematology will present on CAR T Monitoring.

There will also be the general assembly. Of note: two SCS board member will be ending their board activity by end of the year and this two position are open to the member for application.

Further information you can find here.

For access to the virtual meeting, please check your member information email from the 30th of October containing the link and outlook invitation.

If you are a member how did not receive the link to the virtual meeting, please contact us.

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Alternatively, you can open the Zoom app, click on „Join“ and then enter the meeting ID to join the meeting.

News: The board has decided in an extraordinary meeting to hold a virtual autumn meeting. As soon as more details are known, we will inform further.

Due to the Corona Virus Pandemic the SCS Spring Meeting as well as the ESCCA Meeting and SGH/SSH Diagnostic Hematology Meeting will be postponed. We will keep you updated! Please check under Meetings for the new dates.

The SCS Spring Meeting will be postponed to autumn.

Again a lot of interessting topics were adressed during the meeting. Find in the Member Area a summary note of the Borad member and SCS – ESCCA ambassador Bijan Moshaver.

The 2nd Swiss Cytometry Meeting will take place in Lausanne at the SwissTech Convention Center, from the 5th to the 7th of February 2020. Abstract submission is now open. You can find the program here.

The SCS Spring Meeting took place under the topic “Primary Immunodeficiencies, Hematological & Immunological Pitfalls” and was well attended. There was also a lot to discuss and vote for in the General Assembly block. The new SCS President Jan Dirks was unanimously confirmed for his election. A further announcement on this topic will follow shortly. We thank all participating and the organizers for the successful and informative meeting.