Tongji Hospital affiliated to Tongji University hosted the 5th Tongji International Forum on Hematopoietic and Leukemic Stem Cell (TIF2018) and a seminar on Development and Treatment of Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia which was sponsored by a national project of Continuing Medical Education in late August. More than 300 hematology experts from both home and abroad gathered together for an in-depth and extensive exploration of the latest development on hematology.

Experts and scholars delivered presentations at the forum at invitation. In the session on CART, leading experts from both home and abroad discussed the new progress of CART therapy, treatment for its complications and risk assessment, and prospects and policies. In the session of Basic Research on Hematological Tumors, experts talked about their latest achievements in their research fields and shared their first-hand information with the audience. The session on How I Treat witnessed a good variety of new ideas brought by experts for clinical practice, which demonstrated the latest development in the treatment of blood diseases.