Torsten Haferlach, MD¹, Alexander Kohlmann, PhD¹, Giuseppe Basso, MD^1*, Marie-Christine Béné, PhD^1*, Sabina Chiaretti, MD^1*, James R. Downing, MD², Jesús-María Hernández, MD^1*, Wolf-Karsten Hofmann, MD^1*, Thomas J. Kipps, MD, PhD³, Evelyn S Koay, MD^4*, Geertruy Te Kronnie, PhD¹, Wei-min Liu, PhD^5*, Elizabeth MacIntyre, PhD^1*, Ken I Mills, PhD¹, Peter Papenhausen, PhD⁶, Claude Preudhomme, PhD¹, Laura Z Rassenti, PhD⁷, Sheila A Shurtleff, PhD^2*, John De Vos, PhD^1*, Allen E Yeoh, MD^4*, P. Mickey Williams, PhD⁵, Lothar Wieczorek, PhD^5* and Robert Foŕ, MD¹

¹MILE Study Group, on Behalf of European LeukemiaNet (ELN, WP13), Munich, Germany
²Department of Hematology-Oncology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN
³Moores UCSD Cancer Center, CLL Research Consortium, La Jolla, CA
⁴Department of Paediatrics, National University of Singapore, Singapore
⁵Roche Molecular Systems, Inc., Pleasanton, CA
⁶Laboratory Corporation of America, Research Triangle Park, NC
⁷UCSD, Moores Cancer Center, La Jolla, CA

Gunnar Cario, MD^1*, Andre Schrauder, MD^1*, Anja Moericke, MD^1*, Jean-Pierre Bourquin, MD^2*, Martin Schrappe, MD¹ and Martin Stanulla, MD^3*

¹Pediatrics, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany
²University Childrens Hospital, Oncology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
³Dept. of Ped. Hematology, Medical School Hannover, Germany

Lueder Hinrich Meyer, MD^1*, Andrea Zangrando, PhD^2*, Sarah M. Eckhoff, MD^1*, Manon Queudeville, MD^1*, Elena Vendramini^2*, Giuseppe Basso, MD^2*, Geertruy te Kronnie, PhD^2* and Klaus-Michael Debatin, MD¹

¹Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany
²Department of Pediatrics, Laboratory of Pediatric Oncohematology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy

Maria E Figueroa, MD¹, Sanne Lugthart, MD^2*, Yushan Li^1*, Claudia Erpelinck-Verschueren^2*, Paul J Christos, MS, MPH^3*, Madhu Mazumdar, PhD^3*, Bob Löwenberg, MD, PhD^2*, John Greally, MB, PhD^4*, Peter JM Valk, PhD^2*, Ruud Delwel, PhD^2* and Ari Melnick, MD^1*

¹Medicine - Division of Hematology Oncology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY
²Hematology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands
³Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY
⁴Department of Medicine and Molecular Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY

Sanne Lugthart, MD^1*, Maria E Figueroa, MD², Peter JM Valk, PhD^1*, Yushan Li^2*, Claudia Erpelinck-Verschueren^1*, John Greally, MB, PhD^3*, Bob Löwenberg, MD, PhD^1*, Ari Melnick, MD^2* and Ruud Delwel, PhD¹

¹Hematology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands
²Medicine - Division of Hematology Oncology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY
³Department of Medicine and Molecular Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY

Jeffrey W Tyner, PhD^1*, Marc Loriaux, MD, PhD^1*, Stephanie G Willis^1*, Bill Chang, MD, PhD¹, Vincent T Bicocca^1*, Stephen Oh, MD, PhD^2*, Iris H.I.M. Hollink, MD^3*, Stefanie Segers^3*, Monique L. den Boer^3*, C. M Zwaan, MD, PhD³, Jason R. Gotlib^2*, Michael W.N. Deininger, MD¹ and Brian J. Druker¹

¹Oregon Health & Science University Cancer Institute, Portland, OR
²Stanford Cancer Center, Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA
³Erasmus MC/Sophia Children's Hospital, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Steven M. Kornblau, MD, YiHua Qiu^*, Wenjing Chen^*, Phillip Chou^*, Lance Blau^*, Ha Nashino^*, Farhad Ravandi^*, Michael Andreeff^*, Hagop Kantarjian^*, Shannon Neeley^*, Zhenlin Ju^*, Nianxiang Zhang^* and Kevin R. Coombes^*

M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX

Deborah DeRyckere, Ph.D.^1*, Natalie Serkova, Ph.D.^2*, Margaret E. Macy, M.D.¹, Lori A. Gardner, B.A.^1*, Paul Jedlicka, M.D., Ph.D.^3*, Kendra M. Hasebroock, B.S.^2* and Lia Gore, M.D.¹

¹Pediatrics, Section of Hematology, Oncology, and Bone Marrow Transplantation, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, CO
²Anesthesiology, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, CO
³Pathology, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, CO