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Sickle Cell in Focus (SCiF) conference, 16th edition

The 16th annual Sickle Cell in Focus (SCiF) conference will be held in-person at the NIH Bethesda, Maryland campus October 10th- October 11th, 2023. The SCiF conference will once again be co-hosted by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) and The University of West Indies (UWI). Jamaican CAREST members, Prs Jennifer Knight-Madden and Monika […]

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CAREST invited to the IXth Cuban Congress of Hematology in Cuba

The IXth Cuban Congress of Haematology, organised by the Cuban Society of Haematology and the Institute of Haematology and Immunology, will be held from 15 to 19 May 2023 at the Havana Palace of Congresses in Cuba. CAREST is taking the opportunity offered by this invitation to organise a sickle cell session on 16 May […]

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4th Global Congress on Sickle Cell disease

The Global Sickle Cell Disease Network is pleased to announce the 4th Global Congress in Sickle Cell Disease, which will take place in Paris on June 16-18, 2022. Among the partners of this event, there are: the Club du Globule Rouge et du Fer, the French Society of Hematology, the European Hematology Association, and the […]

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SCIF 2021

The 14th Annual  Sickle Cell in Focus (SCiF) co-hosted by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and the Caribbean Institute for Health Research, UWI will take place VIRTUALLY via Zoom September 30 & October 1, 2021.  SCiF is a two-day, intensive, educational update on sickle cell disease. We aim to provide consultants, trainees, doctors, […]

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5th Caribbean Conference on Sickle Cell Disease and Thalassemia

The Fifth edition of the Caribbean Conference of CAREST network “Sickle-cell anemia and Thalassemia” took place in French Guiana, from October 24 to 26, 2018. With about 150 delegates (physicians, researchers, and associations of patient families) this latest edition took a more significant expansion than the previous conferences. Apart from the faithful participants from the […]

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