On April 16th we participated in the first ALLEGRO (Alliance for Lymphoma Research LEiden- GROningen) meeting. With the groups of  Joost Vermaat and Hendrik Veelken of the LUMC we discussed various research projects and topics to find further common ground  to join forces and together enhance  the quality of our fundamental, translational and more clinical research projects focusing on various lymphoma subtypes.

Early February Johanna Veldman, Anke van den Berg, Arjan Diepstra and Joost Kluiver attended and presented at the first Leopoldina Workshop on Hodgkin Lymphoma and Related Diseases in Halle, Germany. A great and inspiring focused meeting. In this meeting organized by Martin Leo Hansmann, Roland Schmidt and Ralf Kuppers  state-of-the-art research on Hodgkin lymphoma was lively and enthousiastically discussed and is expected to be continued. We are already looking forward to the next meeting.

Kirsten Drost and Sandra Versteeg from the lymphoma research funding organization Lymph&Co visited Anke van den Berg and Joost Kluiver to discuss how their funding helped our research and what outcomes were achieved. We talked about how important such a funding organization is to allow much needed research on lymphoma to better understand the disease and how lymphoma patients may benefit from this.