Three nurses of The Blood and Marrow Transplantation team at UConn Health presented the program's latest research findings in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Director Dr. Kapil Meleveedu with nurse research presenters from the BMT program Andrea Moran, Meg Savage, and Elizabeth Higgins.
The Blood and Marrow Transplantation team of UConn Health proudly presented three research posters at the 2026 Transplantation & Cellular Therapy Meetings of the ASTCT and CIBMTR, known as The Tandem Meetings, in Salt Lake City this February.
The Tandem Meetings are a multidisciplinary event highlighting the latest research and breakthroughs in the evolving field of hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT), cellular therapy and gene therapy. The event gathers together members of The American Society for Transplantation and Cellular Therapy (ASTCT) and the Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research (CIBMTR).
The meeting was attended by over 4,000 attendees and additionally over 1,300 virtually.
"I am incredibly proud of this team and their accomplishments," applauds Dr. Kapil Meleveedu, assistant professor of Medicine at UConn School of Medicine and director of the Blood and Marrow Transplantation at UConn Health.
Congratulations to the three research poster presenters from UConn Health's BMT team who are all nurses.
Meg Savage, RN, Transplant and Cell Therapy Clinical Coordinator, presented for the BMT research team the poster on Coordinating Care Under Custody: Unique Workflow for Department of Correction Transplant Recipients.
Elizabeth Higgins, RN, Transplant and Cell Therapy Quality and Data Coordinator, presented for the research team the poster on Autologous Stem Cell Transplantation at a Public Academic Medical Center.
Andrea Moran, APRN, Transplant and Cell Therapy APP and Program Director/Clinical Operations, presented the BMT team's research poster on the Development of an Electronic Medical Record-Based Template for Documentation of Mobilization/Collection and Pre-Transplant Evaluation.
