Jaime Sanz is consultant of the Department of Hematology and coordinator of the Bone Marrow Transplant Unit at the University Hospital La Fe in Valencia, Spain, as well as full Professor of Medicine at the University of Valencia. He studied his medical degree at the Universities of Valencia, Strasbourg and Brussels (1994-2000). He trained as a specialist in hematology at the University Hospital La Fe and completed specific training in the Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Unit at the Hammersmith Hospital in London, led by Dr. Jane Apperley, where he held the position of Coordinator of Bone Marrow Transplantation for a year. He was chair of the umbilical cord blood transplantation subcommittee of the GETH and currently is co-chair of the alternative donors subcommittee of the Acute Leukemia Working Party of the EBMT.
He currently is coordinator of the Adult Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation Program at the University Hospital La Fe, with a notable activity, particularly in allogeneic transplantation from related and unrelated donors in adult patients with hematological malignancies. He is currently a reviewer for several high-profile medical journals, including all top hematology journals, and has authored of 208 peer reviewed papers (H-index = 35), 20 book chapters, and in excess of 240 abstracts at national and international meetings.
Selected publications:
Sanz, J., Galimard, J.-E., Labopin, M., Afanasyev, B., Angelucci, E., Ciceri, F., Blaise, D., Cornelissen, J. J., Meijer, E., Diez-Martin, J. L., Koc, Y., Rovira, M., Castagna, L., Savani, B., Ruggeri, A., Nagler, A., & Mohty, M. (2020). Post-transplant cyclophosphamide after matched sibling, unrelated and haploidentical donor transplants in patients with acute myeloid leukemia: a comparative study of the ALWP EBMT. Journal of Hematology & Oncology, 13(1), 46. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13045-020-00882-6
Sanz, J., Galimard, J.-E., Labopin, M., Afanasyev, B., Sergeevich, M. I., Angelucci, E., Kröger, N., Koc, Y., Ciceri, F., Diez-Martin, J. L., Arat, M., Sica, S., Rovira, M., Aljurf, M., Tischer, J., Savani, B., Ruggeri, A., Nagler, A., & Mohty, M. (2021). Post-transplant cyclophosphamide containing regimens after matched sibling, matched unrelated and haploidentical donor transplants in patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia in first complete remission, a comparative study of the ALWP of the EBMT. Journal of Hematology & Oncology, 14(1), 84. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13045-021-01094-2
Sanz, J., Labopin, M., Blaise, D., Raiola, A. M., Busca, A., Vydra, J., Tischer, J., Chevallier, P., Bramanti, S., Fanin, R., Socié, G., Forcade, E., Kröger, N., Koc, Y., Itäla-Remes, M., Zecca, M., Nagler, A., Brissot, E., Spyridonidis, A., … Ciceri, F. (2024). Haploidentical stem cell donor choice for patients with acute myeloid leukemia: a study from the ALWP of the EBMT. Blood Advances, 8(10), 2332–2341. https://doi.org/10.1182/bloodadvances.2023012133
Sanz, J., Labopin, M., Choi, G., Kulagin, A., Peccatori, J., Vydra, J., Reményi, P., Versluis, J., Rovira, M., Blaise, D., Labussière-Wallet, H., Montoro, J., Sica, S., Meijer, E., Itälä-Remes, M., Schaap, N., Bulabois, C. E., Piemontese, S., Mohty, M., & Ciceri, F. (2024). Younger unrelated donors may be preferable over HLA match in the PTCy era: a study from the ALWP of the EBMT. Blood, 143(24), 2534–2543. https://doi.org/10.1182/blood.2023023697
Sanz, J., Montoro, J., Solano, C., Valcárcel, D., Sampol, A., Ferrá, C., Parody, R., Lorenzo, I., Montesinos, P., Ortí, G., Hernández-Boluda, J. C., Balaguer-Roselló, A., Guerreiro, M., Carretero, C., Sanz, G. F., Sanz, M. A., & Piñana, J. L. (2020). Prospective Randomized Study Comparing Myeloablative Unrelated Umbilical Cord Blood Transplantation versus HLA-Haploidentical Related Stem Cell Transplantation for Adults with Hematologic Malignancies. Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation, 26(2), 358–366. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbmt.2019.10.014