Birte Friedrichs, MD^1*, Andre Tichelli, MD², Andrea Bacigalupo, MD³, Nigel H. Russell, MD⁴, Tapani Ruutu, MD⁵, Meral Beksac^6*, Gerard Socie, MD^7* and Norbert Schmitz, MD⁸

¹Medical Clinic III, Charite-Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany
²Basel Stem Cell Transplant Team, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland
³Hem-Onc, Ospedale S. Martino, Genova, Italy
⁴Centre for Clinical Haematology, Nottingham University Hospital, Nottingham
⁵Department of Medicine, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
⁶IBNI SINA Hospital, Ankara, Turkey
⁷Hopital Saint-Louis, Paris, France
⁸Hematology and Stem Cell Transplantation, Asklepios Klinik St. Georg, Hamburg, Germany

Maria Themeli^1*, Loizos Petrikkos^2*, Miguel Waterhouse^2*, Hartmut Bertz^2*, Eleni Lagadinou^1*, Nicholas Zoumbos¹, J.ürgen Finke³ and Alexandros Spyridonidis¹

¹Hematology, University of Patras, Rio-Patras, Greece
²Haematology, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
³Hematology/Oncology, University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Bernhard Heilmeier^1*, Nadine Stowasser^1*, Gerard Socie, MD, PhD^2*, Maria Teresa van Lint^3*, Andre Tichelli^4*, Nina Salooja^5*, Elke Nekolla^6*, Per T. Ljungman, MD, PhD⁷, Niels Jacobsen^8*, Marie van Weel^9*, Johanna Tischer^1*, Georg Ledderose^10*, Theodor M. Fliedner^11* and Hans-Jochem Kolb^1*

¹Transplantation, Dept. Medicine III, University of Munich, Muenchen, Germany
²Serv. de Greffe de Moelle, Paris, France
³Centro Trapianto Midollo Osseo, Ospedale San Martino, Genova, Italy
⁴Hematology, University Hospital of Basel, Switzerland
⁵Department of Hematology, Hammersmith Hospital, London, United Kingdom
⁶Bundesamt fuer Strahlensicherheit, Neuherberg, Germany
⁷Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
⁸University of Copenhagen, BMT Unit, Copenhagen, Denmark
⁹Dept Pediatrics, Leiden Medical University, Leiden, Netherlands
¹⁰3. Medizinische Klinik, Transplantationseinheit, München, Germany
¹¹Clinical Physiology, University of Ulm

Saro Armenian, DO, MPH^1*, Can-Lan Sun², Liton Francisco, B.S.^2*, K. Scott Baker, MD, MS³, Stephen J. Forman² and Smita Bhatia, MD, MPH⁴

¹Population Sciences, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, CA
²City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, CA
³University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
⁴Population Sciences, City of Hope National Med. Ctr., Duarte, CA

Eric J Chow, MD, MPH^1*, Jean E Sanders, MD¹, Christian Roth, MD^2*, Paul A Hoffmeister, MPH^1* and Debra L Friedman, MD, MS^3*

¹Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA
²Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center, Seattle, WA
³Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Nashville, TN

Samir Kanaan Nabhan, MD^1*, Marco Bittencourt, MD^2*, Michel Duval, MD^3*, Manuel M Abecasis, MD^4*, Carlo Dufour, MD^5*, Karim Boudjedir, MD^1*, Vanderson Rocha, MD^1*, Gérard Socié, MD, PhD^6*, Jakob R. Passweg, MD, MS⁷, Ricardo Pasquini, MD^2* and Eliane Gluckman, MD¹

¹Eurocord, Paris, France
²Hospital de Clinicas, Universidade Federal do Parana, Curitiba, Brazil
³Hôpital Sainte-Justine, Montreal, Canada
⁴Bone Marrow Transplantation Unit, Instituto Português de Oncologia, Lisboa, Portugal
⁵Giannina Gaslini Children's Hospital, Genoa, Italy
⁶Bone Marrow Transplantation, Hôpital Saint-Louis, Paris, France
⁷Hopitaux Universitaires de Geneve, Geneve, Switzerland