Varda R Deutsch, PhD¹, Einav Hubel, MSc^1*, Sigi Kay, PhD^1*, Tal Ohayon, MSc^1*, Ben-Zion Katz, PhD^1*, Elizabeth Naparstek, MD¹ and Dan Grisaru, MD^2*

¹Hematology and Bone Marrow Transplantation, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
²Obstetrics and Gynecology, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel

Karin Tarte, PhD^1*, Jean-jacques Lataillade, MD, PhD^2*, Loïc Fouillard, MD, PhD^3*, Julien Gaillard^4*, Martine Becker, MD^5*, Delphine Monnier, PhD^1*, Helene Rouard, PhD^6*, Andrei Tchirkov, MD, PhD^7*, Jean-Paul Vernant, Pr^8*, Norbert C Gorin, Pr⁹, Patrick Gourmelon, Pr^10* and Luc Sensebe, MD, PhD^11*

¹Inserm U917-MICA, Faculté de Médecine de Rennes, Rennes, France
²CTSA, Clamart, France
³Hematology, AP-HP Hopital Saint-Antoine, Paris, France
⁴Research department, EFS Centre Atlantique & EA3855, Tours, France
⁵Futurebiolab, Genève, Switzerland
⁶Thérapie Cellulaire, EFS Ile de France, Créteil, France
⁷Service de Cytogénétique Médicale, CHU de Clermont-Ferrand and EA3846, Clermont-Ferrand, France
⁸Service d'Hématologie Clinique, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France
⁹Hematology-Oncology, Hopital Saint-Antoine and Universite Pierre et Marie Curie UPMC, Paris, France
¹⁰IRSN, France
¹¹Research department, EFS Centre Atlantique & EA3855, 37000 Tours, France

Chunji Gao, Weihua Chen^*, Fei Wang^*, Meng Li^*, Haiyan Zhu^* and Wanming Da^*

Dept. of Hematology, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China

Zygmunt Pojda, M.D., Ph.D¹, Eugeniusz K Machaj, Ph.D.^2*, Marzena Korczak, M.Sci.^1*, Aleksandra Kopera, M.Sci.^1*, Paulina Adamczyk-Wojciechowska, M.Sci.^1*, Jadwiga Kuczynska-Sicinska, M.D., Ph.D.^3*, Romuald Debski, M.D., Ph.D.^4*, Krzysztof Czajkowski, M.D., Ph.D.^3* and Monika Turkowska, M.Sci.^2*

¹Department of Experimental Hematology and Cord Blood Bank, Oncology Center-Institute, Warsaw, Poland
²Department of Regenerative Medicine, WIHE Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Warsaw, Poland
³Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Duchess Anna Mazowiecka Public Teaching Hospital, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
⁴Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Medical Center for Postgraduate Education, Orlowski Hospital, Warsaw, Poland

Daniel Lysák, MD^1*, Alexandra Jungová, MD^1*, Jindra Vrzalová, M.Sc.^2*, Luboš Holubec, MD, PhD^2* and Vladimir Koza, MD^3*

¹Dept. of Hematology and Oncology, University Hospital Pilsen, Pilsen, Czech Republic
²Immunoanalytic Laboratory, University Hospital Pilsen, Pilsen, Czech Republic
³Czech National Marrow Donor Registry, Pilsen, Czech Republic

Shaji Kumar, MD, Martha Lacy^*, Angela Dispenzieri^*, Suzzanne Hayman^*, Francis Buadi^*, David Dingli^*, Teresa Miceli^*, Mark Litzow^*, S.Vincent Rajkumar^* and Morie Gertz^*

Hematology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

Nalini K Pati, MBBS, MD, DNB^1*, Frances Garvin, BSc^1*, Vicki Antonenas, BSc^1*, Ian Kerridge, FRACP, FRCPA, PhD^1*, Kenneth F Bradstock, MB, PhD, FRACP, FRCPA² and David J Gottlieb, MD, FRACP, FRCPA^3*

¹Haematology, ICPMR, Westmead Hospital, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, Australia
²Department of Haematology, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, NSW 2145, Australia
³University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

Pratibha Singh, PhD^1*, Seiji Fukuda, MD, PhD², Janardhan Sampath, PhD^1* and Louis M. Pelus, PhD¹

¹Microbiology and Immunology and the Walther Oncology Center, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN
²Dept. of Pediatrics, Shimane Univ., Izumo, Japan

Hartmut Goldschmidt^1*, Henk M. Lokhorst², Uta Bertsch^1*, Bronno van der Holt^3*, Laila el Jarari^3*, Hans-Jürgen Salwender^4*, Sonja Zweegman², Edo Vellenga², Jörg Schubert^4*, Igor W. Blau^4*, Asiong Jie^2*, Berna Beverloo^2*, Dirk Hose¹, Helgi van de Velde^5*, Martyn Ronald Schaafsma², Marie Jose Kersten^2*, Michel Delforge⁶, Okke de Weerdt^2*, Rene Van der Griend^2*, Pierre Wijermans², Hans Martin^4*, Christof Scheid⁴, Mathias Hänel⁴, Ingo G.H. Schmidt-Wolf^4* and Pieter Sonneveld for the HOVON and GMMG group^7*

¹GMMG and University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
²HOVON, Netherlands
³HOVON Data Center, Netherlands
⁴GMMG, Germany
⁵Johnson&Johnson, Belgium
⁶HOVON, Belgium
⁷HOVON and Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Sarah Vaiselbuh, MD^1*, Jeffrey Michael Lipton, MD, PhD² and Johnson M. Liu, MD¹

¹Department of Pediatrics, The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, Manhasset, NY
²Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation, Schneider Children's Hospital, New Hyde Park, NY

Ali Jalili, MSc, PhD^1*, Neeta Shirvaikar, MSc^2*, Chris Korol^1* and Anna Janowska-Wieczorek, MD, PhD³

¹Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
²Research and Development, Canadian Blood Services, Edmonton, AB, Canada
³Div. Clinical Hematology, Dept. of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

Sudhakar Baluchamy, PhD^*, Benjamin Petro, BS^*, Hiroto Araki, MD, PhD, Valerie Lindgren, PhD^* and Nadim Mahmud, MD, PhD

Hematology/Oncology, Dept. of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL

Ivan N. Rich, PhD¹, Karen Hall, MT, (ASCP)^1*, Holli Harper, MS^1* and Brian M Freed, PhD, DABHI^2*

¹HemoGenix, Inc, Colorado Springs, CO
²University of Colorado Cord Blood Bank and ClinImmune Laboratories, Denver, CO

Laura A. Paganessi^*, Andrew L. Walker^* and Kent W. Christopherson II, PhD

Section of Hematology & Stem Cell Transplantation, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL

Michael P. Rettig, PhD^*, William D. Shannon, PhD^*, Julie Ritchey^*, Matthew Holt^*, Kyle McFarland^*, Sandra Lopez^*, Jeremy Gabriel^* and John F. DiPersio, MD, PhD

Department of Medicine, Siteman Cancer Center, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO

Dolores Mahmud, PhD^* and Damiano Rondelli, MD

Section of Hematology/Oncology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL