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618.P1.57 618. Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: Biology, Cytogenetics and Molecular Markers in Diagnosis and Prognosis: Poster I

Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: Biology, Cytogenetics and Molecular Markers in Diagnosis and Prognosis Program: Oral and Poster Abstracts
Type: Poster
Saturday, December 5, 2015: 5:30 PM-7:30 PM
Hall A, Level 2 (Orange County Convention Center)

Eric M Vroegindeweij, PhD1*, Tim Lammens, PhD2*, Erik Splinter, PhD3*, Anne Uyttebroeck4*, Kirsten Canté-Barrett, PhD1, Jessica GCAM Buijs-Gladdines1*, Wilco K Smits1*, Peter Vandenberghe, MD, PhD5, Max J van Min, PhD3*, Rob Pieters, MD, PhD6, Pieter Van Vlierberghe, PhD7* and Jules PP Meijerink, PhD1

1Department of Pediatric Oncology/Hematology, Erasmus MC - Sophia Children's Hospital, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2Department of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium
3Cergentis BV, Utrecht, Netherlands
4Center for Human Genetics, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
5Center for Human Genetics, Catholic University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
6Princess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology, Utrecht, Netherlands
7Center for Medical Genetics, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

Sabina Chiaretti1*, Sara Grammatico1*, Alfonso Piciocchi2*, Monica Messina1*, Anna Lucia Fedullo1*, Valentina Gianfelici1*, Grazia Fazio, PhD3*, Nadia Peragine1*, Maria Paola Martelli4*, Paola Fazi2*, Marco Vignetti2*, Antonella Vitale1*, Cyril Salek5*, Gianni Cazzaniga, PhD6, Anna Guarini1* and Robin Foà1*

1Hematology, Department of Cellular Biotechnologies and Hematology, “Sapienza” University, Rome, Italy
2GIMEMA Data Center, Rome, Italy
3Centro Ricerca Tettamanti, Clinica Pediatrica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Ospedale San Gerardo/Fondazione MBBM, Monza, Italy
4Institute of Hematology, Centro Ricerche Onco-Ematologiche (CREO), University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy
5Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion U Nemocnice 1 128 20 Prague 2 Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic
6Department of Pediatrics, Tettamanti Research Center, University of Milano-Bicocca, Fondazione MBBM/San Gerardo Hospital, Monza, Italy

Michaela Kotrova, MD1*, Henrik Knecht2*, Jack Bartram, MD3*, Vojtech Bystry4*, Giovanni Cazzaniga5, Grazia Fazio, PhD6*, Simone Ferrero7*, Elisa Genuardi7*, Ramon Garcia-Sanz, MD, PhD8*, Andrea Grioni9*, Jeremy Hancock, PhD10*, Cristina Jiminez11*, Marco Ladetto12, John Moppett, MD, PhD13*, Simona Songia9*, Dietrich Herrmann14*, Christiane Pott, MD, PhD15*, Anton W. Langerak16,17*, Nikos Darzentas4*, Jan Trka18, Eva Fronkova19* and Monika Bruggemann14*

1CLIP Laboratory Centre, Department of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Second Medical Faculty and University Hospital Motol, Prague, Czech Republic
2Hematologic Diagnostic Laboratory, University Clinic Schleswig-Holstein Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany
3Department of Haematology, Great Ormond Street Hospital For Children, London, United Kingdom
4Central European Institute of Technology, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
5Centro Ricerca Tettamanti, Department of Pediatrics, University of Milano-Bicocca, Fondazione MBBM/San Gerardo Hospital, Monza, Italy
6Centro Ricerca Tettamanti, Clinica Pediatrica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Ospedale San Gerardo/Fondazione MBBM, Monza, Italy
7Department of Molecular Biotechnologies and health sciences, Hematology Division, University of Torino, Torino, Italy
8Department of Hematology, Hospital Universitario de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
9Centro Ricerca Tettamanti, University of Milano Bicocca, Monza, Italy
10Bristol Genetics Laboratory, Southmead Hospital, Bristol, United Kingdom
11IBMCC-CSIC, Hospital Universitario de Salamanca-IBSAL, Salamanca, Spain
12Hematology, Department of Molecular Biotechnologies and Health Sciences, University of Torino, Torino, Italy
13Department of Pediatric Haematology, Bristol Royal Hospital for Children, Bristol, England
14Department of Hematology, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany
15University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany
16Department of Immunology, Erasmus MC Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands
17on behalf of EuroClonality NGS Consortium, Rotterdam, Netherlands
18Department of Paediatric Haematology and Oncology, 2nd School of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
19CLIP Laboratory Centre, Department of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, 2nd Medical School, Charles University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic

David O'Connor, MD, PhD1*, Jack Bartram, MD1*, Amir Enshaei, PhD2*, Anthony V Moorman, PhD2, Christine Harrison, PhD FRCPath FMedSci2, Rachel Wade, MSc3*, Rachel Clack, MSc4*, Jeremy Hancock, PhD5*, Sujith Samarasinghe, MD, PhD1*, John Moppett, MD, PhD6*, Ajay J. Vora7 and Nicholas Goulden, MD, PhD1

1Department of Haematology, Great Ormond Street Hospital For Children, London, United Kingdom
2Northern Institute for Cancer Research, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
3CTSU, Oxford, United Kingdom
4CTSU, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
5Bristol Genetics Laboratory, Southmead Hospital, Bristol, United Kingdom
6Department of Pediatric Haematology, Bristol Royal Hospital for Children, Bristol, England
7Dept. of Pediatric Hematology, The Children's Hospital, Sheffield, United Kingdom

Bartolomeo Rossi, MD1*, Mimma Campeggio1*, Elisa Magrin, PhD1*, Marco Zecca, MD2*, Laura Rubert, MD2*, Franca Fagioli, MD3*, Paola Quarello, MD4*, Federica Lovisa, PhD1* and Giuseppe Basso, MD1

1Clinic of Pediatric Hemato-Oncology, Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, University of Padua, Padua, Italy
2Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy
3Regina Margherita Children's Hospital, Pediatric Onco-Hematology, Stem Cell Transplantation and Cellular Therapy Division, Torino, Italy
4Pediatric Onco-Hematology, Regina Margherita Children's Hospital, Torino, Italy

Ester Mejstrikova, MD, PhD1*, Julie Irving2, Leonid Karawajew3*, Marian Case4*, Jenny Jesson5*, Vaskar Saha, PhD, FRCP, FRCPath6,7,8, Nicholas Goulden, MD, PhD9, Jeremy Hancock, PhD10*, Arend Stackelberg, MD3*, Sarah Lawson11*, Michael Dworzak, MD12*, Renate Panzer-Grumayer13*, Barbara Buldini14*, Lisa Eyre5*, Giuseppe Basso, MD15, Maddalena Paganin14*, Jan Trka16, Daniela Kužílková17*, Jan Stary18, Lucie Sramkova, MD19*, Ondrej Hrusak, MD, PhD20 and Cornelia Eckert3*

1CLIP-DPHO, Charles University, Hospital Motol, Prague, Czech Republic
2Northern Institute for Cancer Research, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
3Department of Pediatric Oncology/Hematology, Charité Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany
4New Castle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
5Birmingham Children's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, United Kingdom
6Children's Cancer Group, Institute of Cancer Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
7Tata Medical Center, Kolkata, India
8Tata Translational Cancer Research Centre, Kolkata, India
9Department of Haematology, Great Ormond Street Hospital For Children, London, United Kingdom
10Bristol Genetics Laboratory, Southmead Hospital, Bristol, United Kingdom
11Department of Haematology, Birmingham Childrens Hospital, Birmingham, United Kingdom
12Department of Pediatrics, Medical University of Vienna, St. Anna Children's Hospital and Children’s Cancer Research Institute, Vienna, Austria
13CCRI - CHILDREN'S CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE, Vienna, Austria
14University of Padova, Padova, Italy
15Dipartimento di Salute della Donna e del Bambino, Università di Padova, Padova, Italy
16Department of Paediatric Haematology and Oncology, 2nd School of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
17Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
18CLIP- Childhood Leukaemia Investigation Prague, Department of Paediatric Haematology and Oncology, 2nd Faculty of Medicine, Charles University and University Hospital Motol, Prague, Czech Republic
19Charles university, Hospital Motol, Prague, Czech Republic
202nd Faculty of Medicine, Dept. Pediatric Hem/Onc, CLIP, Charles University, Hospital Motol, Prague, Czech Republic

Caroline L Furness, MD1*, Clare Rowntree2*, Ajay J. Vora3, Amy A Kirkwood4*, Christopher Mitchell, MBBS, PhD, FRCP5*, Nicholas Goulden, MD, PhD6, Anthony V. Moorman, PhD7 and Rachael Hough, MD, BMBS, FRCP, FRCPath8*

1Haemato-Oncology, Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom
2Heath Hospital, Cardiff, United Kingdom
3Dept. of Pediatric Hematology, The Children's Hospital, Sheffield, United Kingdom
4CRUK and UCL Cancer Trials Centre, UCL, London, United Kingdom
5John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom
6Department of Haematology, Great Ormond Street Hospital For Children, London, United Kingdom
7Northern Institute for Cancer Research, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
8Cancer Institute, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Nicholas J. Short, MD1, Hagop M. Kantarjian, MD1, Elias Jabbour1, Susan O'Brien, MD2, Stefan Faderl, MD3, Jan A. Burger, MD, PhD1, Rebecca Garris1*, Wei Qiao4*, Xuelin Huang, PhD4*, Nitin Jain, MD1, Marina Konopleva, MD, PhD1, Tapan Kadia, MD1, Naval Daver, MD1, Gautam Borthakur, MD1, Jorge E. Cortes1 and Farhad Ravandi, MD1

1Department of Leukemia, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
2University of California - Irvine, Orange, CA
3John Theurer Cancer Center, Hackensack, NJ
4Department of Biostatistics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX

Henning Fedders, PhD1*, Denis Martin Schewe, MD1*, Martin Zimmermann, PhD2*, Ameera Alsadeq, PhD1*, Anja Moericke, MD1*, Udo zur Stadt, PhD3*, Martin A. Horstmann, MD3*, Rob Pieters, MD, PhD4, Martin Schrappe, MD, PhD1, Gunnar Cario, MD1* and Martin Stanulla, MD2*

1Department of General Pediatrics, ALL-BFM Study Group, Christian-Albrechts University Kiel and University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany
2Department of Paediatric Haematology and Oncology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
3University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Clinic of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Hamburg, Germany
4Department of Pediatric Oncology/Hematology, Erasmus MC - Sophia Children's Hospital, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Nitin Jain, MD1, Audrey Lamb, BS2*, Susan M. O'Brien, MD3*, Farhad Ravandi, MD1, Marina Konopleva, MD, PhD4, Elias Jabbour1, Zhuang Zuo, MD, PhD2*, Jeffrey L. Jorgensen, MD, PhD2, Pei Lin, MD2, Sherry Pierce, BSN, BA1*, Deborah A Thomas, MD1, Michael Rytting, M.D.1, Gautam Borthakur, MD1, Tapan Kadia, MD1, Jorge E. Cortes, MD5, Hagop M. Kantarjian, MD1 and Joseph D Khoury, MD2

1Department of Leukemia, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
2Department of Hematopathology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
3University of California, Irvine/Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, Orange, CA
4Section of Molecular Hematology and Therapy, Department of Leukemia, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
5Department of Leukemia, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX

Susan L Heatley, PhD, MEd1,2*, Teresa Sadras, PhD1,2*, Eva Nievergall, PhD1,2*, Chung Hoow Kok, PhD1,2*, Phuong Dang, BSci (Hon)1*, Kelly Quek, PhD1*, Nicola C Venn3*, Sarah Moore, BSc (Hon), FFSc (RCPA)4*, Tamara Law, BSc (Hons)3*, Anthea Ng, BAppSc, MSc5,6*, Murray D Norris, PhD7,8*, Tamas Revesz, MD, PhD6,9*, Michael P Osborn, MBBS6,9*, Chris Fraser, FRACP, MBBS, MPH6,10*, Frank Alvaro, MBBS, FRACP6,11*, Glenn M Marshall, MBBS, MD, FRACP6,12,13, Luciano Dalla Pozza, MBBS, FRACP5,6*, Timothy P. Hughes, MD, MBBS, FRACP, FRCPA1,2,14, Charles G. Mullighan, MBBS, MSc, MD15, Rosemary Sutton, PhD6,16* and Deborah L White, PhD, FFSc (RCPA)1,2,6

1Cancer Theme, South Australian Health & Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI), Adelaide, Australia
2School of Medicine, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia
3Molecular Diagnostics, Children's Cancer Institute Australia, Sydney, Australia
4Department of Genetics and Molecular Pathology, SA Pathology, Adelaide, Australia
5Department of Oncology, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Westmead, Australia
6Australian and New Zealand Children's Haematology/Oncology Group, Melbourne, Australia
7Molecular Diagnostics, Children's Cancer Institute, Sydney, Australia
8Centre for Childhood Cancer Research, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
9Department of Haematology & Oncology, Women's & Children's Hospital, Adelaide, Australia
10Children's Health Queensland, Lady Cilento Children's Hospital, Brisbane, Australia
11John Hunter Children's Hospital, Newcastle, Australia
12School of Women's and Children's Health, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
13Kids Cancer Centre, Sydney Children's Hospital, Randwick, Australia
14Department of Haematology, SA Pathology, Adelaide, Australia
15Department of Pathology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN
16Children's Cancer Institute, Lowy Cancer Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Gabriel N. Mannis, MD1, Thomas G. Martin III, MD1, Lloyd E. Damon, MD1*, Charalambos Andreadis, MD, MSCE1, Rebecca L. Olin, MD, MSCE1, Katie Kong2*, Malek Faham, MD, PhD2, Weiyun Z. Ai, MD, PhD1, Karin ML Gaensler, MD1, Peter H. Sayre, MD, PhD1, Jeffrey L. Wolf, MD, PhD1 and Aaron C. Logan, MD, PhD1

1University of California San Francisco, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, San Francisco, CA
2Adaptive Biotechnologies, South San Francisco, CA

Mari H Dallas, MD1, Paul Thomas, PhD2*, John Choi3*, William E. Evans, PharmD4, Hiroto Inaba, MD, PhD5, Sima Jeha, MD6 and Ching-Hon Pui, MD5

1Department of Bone Marrow Transplantation and Cellular Therapy, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN
2Immunology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN
3Pathology, St. Jude's Childrens Hospital, Memphis, TN
4Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN
5Oncology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN
6Department of Oncology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN

Franck Rapaport, PhD1*, Jay Patel2*, Jie He, PhD3*, Timothy A Brennan, MS3*, Michelle Nahas, PhD3*, Sohail Balassubramanian, MS4*, Geoff Otto, PhD3*, Doron Lipson, PhD3*, Phil Stephens, PhD3*, Vincent A. Miller, MD3*, Janis Racevskis, MD5*, Mark R Litzow, MD6, Peter H. Wiernik, M.D.7, Anthony H. Goldstone, FRCP, FRCPath8, Selina Luger, MD9, Marcel van den Brink, MD, PhD10, Agnes Viale, PhD11*, Jacob M. Rowe, MD12, Martin S. Tallman, MD13, Ari Melnick, MD14, Elisabeth Paietta, PhD15, Mithat Gonen, PhD16* and Ross L. Levine, MD2

1Leukemia Center, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York City, NY
2Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
3Foundation Medicine, Inc., Cambridge, MA
4Foundation Medicine, Inc, Cambridge, MA
5Department of Medicine (Oncology), Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, New York, NY
6Division of Hematology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
7Department of Oncology, Montefiore Medical Center North Division, Bronx, NY
8Univ. College London Hosp., London, England
9Abramson Cancer Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
10Department of Medicine, Adult Bone Marrow Transplant Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
11Memorial Sloan Kettering, New York City, NY
12Hematology, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel
13Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL
14Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY
15Cancer Center, The North Division of Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY
16Statistics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY

Thai Hoa Tran, MD1, Jonathan Van Nguyen1*, Catherine C. Smith, MD2, Kathryn G. Roberts, PhD3, Charles G. Mullighan, MBBS, MSc, MD3, Neil P. Shah2 and Mignon L. Loh, MD1

1Department of Pediatrics, Benioff Children’s Hospital, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
2Department of Medicine, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
3Department of Pathology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN

Chihiro Tomoyasu, MD1*, Toshihiko Imamura, MD1, Mio Yano, MD1*, Daisuke Asai, MD2*, Meixian Huang, MD3*, Hiroaki Goto, MD, PhD4*, Akira Shimada, MD, PhD5, Takeshi Inukai, MD, PhD6*, Kanji Sugita, MD, PhD3 and Hajime Hosoi, MD1*

1Pediatrics, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kyoto, Japan
2Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatrics, North Medical Center, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
3Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of Yamanashi, Chuo, Yamanashi, Japan
4Division of Hemato-oncology/Regenerative Medicine, Kanagawa Children's Medical Center, Yokohama, Japan
5Pediatrics/Pediatric Hematology & Oncology, Okayama University Hospital, Okayama, Japan
6Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of Yamanashi, Chuo, Japan

Yuka Yamashita, MS1*, Masashi Sanada, MD, Ph.D.2*, Kenichi Yoshida, MD, Ph.D.3*, Hiroo Ueno, MD3*, Hiroko Tanaka, BA4*, Yuichi Shiraishi, MD, Ph.D.4*, Kenichi Chiba, BA4*, Toshihiko Imamura, MD, PhD5, Satoru Miyano, MD, Ph.D.4*, Koji Kato, MD, PhD6, Seiji Kojima, MD, PhD7*, Seishi Ogawa, MD, Ph.D.8 and Keizo Horibe, MD, PhD1

1Clinical Research Center, National Hospital Organization Nagoya Medical Center, Nagoya, Japan
2Department of Advanced Diagnosis, Clinical Research Center, National Hospital Organization Nagoya Medical Center, Nagoya, Japan
3Department of Pathology and Tumor Biology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
4Human Genome Center, Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
5Department of Pediatrics, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kyoto, Japan
6Department of Hematology and Oncology, Children's Medical Center, Japanese Red Cross Nagoya First Hospital, Nagoya, Japan
7Department of Pediatrics, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan
8Department of Pathology and Tumor Biology, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, Kyoto, Japan

Lisa Jane Russell, PhD1*, Lisa Jones, BSc1*, Amir Enshaei, PhD1*, Jamie Rutherford, BSc1*, Stefano Tonin, PhD1*, Sarra Ryan, PhD1*, Jeyanthy Eswaran, PhD1*, Elli Papaemmanuil, PhD2*, Jose Tubio, PhD3*, Peter J Campbell, MD, PhD4*, Anthony V Moorman, PhD1 and Christine Harrison, PhD FRCPath FMedSci1

1Northern Institute for Cancer Research, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
2Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York
3Cancer Genome Project, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom
4Cancer genome Project, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Shiven B. Patel, MD1,2*, Clinton C. Mason, PhD2*, Martha Glenn, MD1, Christian N. Paxton, PhD3*, Sarah T. South, PhD3,4*, Melissa H. Cessna, MD5*, Julie D. Asch, MD6, Erin F. Cobain, MD7*, Dale Bixby, MD, PhD8, Lauren B. Smith, MD9, Shalini C. Reshmi, PhD10*, Julie M. Gastier-Foster, PhD10, Joshua D. Schiffman, MD2 and Rodney R. Miles, MD, PhD2,3,4

1Division of Hematology and Hematologic Malignancies, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT
2Huntsman Cancer Institute, Salt Lake City, UT
3ARUP Institute for Clinical and Experimental Pathology, Salt Lake City, UT
4Department of Pathology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
5Intermountain Mecial Center, Salt Lake City, UT
6Intermountain Blood and Marrow Transplant/Acute Leukemia Program, Salt Lake City, UT
7University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, MI
8Univ. of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Ctr., Ann Arbor, MI
9Department of Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
10The Ohio State University, Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH

Paulina Pechanska1*, Joachim Kunz, MD2*, Tobias Rausch3*, Obul Reddy Bandapalli, PhD1, Elena Orlova1*, Judit Sagi1*, Martin Stanulla, MD4*, Martin Schrappe, MD, PhD5, Renate Kirschner-Schwabe, PhD6*, Jana Hof6*, Cornelia Eckert7*, Rolf Köhler8*, Martina U. Muckenthaler, PhD9, Jan o. Korbel3* and Andreas E Kulozik, MD PhD10

1Department of Pediatric Oncology, Hematology and Immunology, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany
2Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany
3European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
4Department of Paediatric Haematology and Oncology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
5Dept. of Pediatrics, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany
6Universitätsmedizin Charité, Berlin, Germany
7Department of Pediatric Oncology/Hematology, Charité Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany
8Department of Human Genetics, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany
9Department of Pediatric Oncology, Hematology, Immunology and Pulmunology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
10Department of Pediatric Oncology, Hematology and Immunology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Zach Dixon, BSc Hons, MRes1*, Julie A.E. Irving, PhD1 and Lindsay Nicholson, PhD2*

1Northern Institute for Cancer Research, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
2Haematological Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Suzanne M. Johnson1*, Clare Dempsey1*, Amy Chadwick2*, Stephanie Harrison1*, Jizhong Liu1*, Yujun Di1*, Owen McGinn1*, Mayur Parihar3*, Federica Sotgia2*, Michael Lisanti2*, Shekhar Krishnan3,4* and Vaskar Saha, PhD, FRCP, FRCPath3,4,5

1Children’s Cancer Group, Institute of Cancer Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
2Manchester Centre for Cellular Metabolism, Institute of Cancer Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
3Tata Medical Center, Kolkata, India
4Tata Translational Cancer Research Centre, Kolkata, India
5Children's Cancer Group, Institute of Cancer Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Jianhong Lin, M.D, M.Sc1*, Chun Yang, M.D. Ph.D.1,2*, Ariel Kwart, B.S.1*, Jianjun Zhao, M.D. Ph.D.1, Mehmet K Samur, Ph.D3*, Weihong Zhang, M.D1,4*, Purushothama Nanjappa, M.S.1,5*, Teresa Calimeri, M.D, Ph.D6, Xiubao Ren, M.D4*, Dongdong Ma, M.D. Ph.D.7*, Xiaofeng Jiang, M.D. Ph.D.2*, Yi Zhou, Ph.D8*, Masood Shammas, PhD1,5, Kenneth C. Anderson, M.D1, Jon C. Aster, M.D, Ph.D9, Leonard I. Zon, M.D8,10, Robert I. Handin, M.D7 and Nikhil C. Munshi, MD5,11

1Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
2Department of Clinical Laboratory, the 4th Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China
3Biostatistics and Computational Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
4Biotherapy Department, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, Tianjin, China
5VA Boston Healthcare System, West Roxbury, MA
6Unit of Lymphoid Malignancies Division of OncoHematological Medicine, Department of OncoHematology, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milano, Italy
7Hematology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
8Stem Cell Program and Division of Hematology/Oncology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Boston Children's Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
9Department of Pathology, Brigham &Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
10Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
11Jerome Lipper Multiple Myeloma Center, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA

Christopher Daniel Chien, PhD, Sang Minh Nguyen, BS*, Haiying Qin, MS*, Elad Jacoby, MD and Terry J. Fry, M.D.

Pediatric Oncology Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD

Shella Saint Fleur-Lominy, MD, PhD1, Mate Maus, Ph.D.2* and Stefan Feske, M.D.2*

1Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY
2Pathology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY

Jae-Woong Lee, PHD1*, Zhengshan Chen, MD PhD1*, Huimin Geng, PhD2*, Gang Xiao, PhD1*, Eugene PARK, PHD1*, Samir Parekh, MD3, Steven M. Kornblau, MD4, Ari Melnick, MD5, Abul Abbas1*, Elisabeth Paietta6* and Markus Muschen, MD, PhD1

1Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
2Laboratory Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
3Hematology and Medical Oncology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
4M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas, Houston, TX
5Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY
6Albert Einstein College of Medicine, BRONX, NY

Floris C. Loeff1*, Kevin Rijs1*, Willem H. Zoutman2*, Esther H.M. Egmond1*, Maarten H. Vermeer, MD, PhD2*, J.H. Frederik Falkenburg, MD, PhD1, Constantijn J.M. Halkes, MD, PhD1 and Inge Jedema, PhD1

1Department of Hematology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands
2Department of Dermatology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands

Tomasz Sewastianik, MSc1*, Patryk Gorniak, PhD1*, Przemyslaw Kiliszek, MSc1*, Anna Polak, MSc1*, Emilia Bialopiotrowicz, PhD1*, Ewa Jablonska, PhD1*, Maciej Szydlowski, PhD1*, Ewa Lech-Maranda, MD, PhD2,3*, Katarzyna Borg, PhD1*, Hanna Makuch-Lasica, MSc1*, Adam Zabek, MSc4*, Piotr Mlynarz, PhD4*, Tomasz Stoklosa, MD, PhD5, Sebastian Giebel, MD, PhD6*, Krzysztof Warzocha, MD, PhD3* and Przemyslaw Juszczynski, MD, PhD1*

1Dept. of Diagnostic Hematology, Institute of Hematology and Transfusion Medicine, Warsaw, Poland
2Dept. of Hematology and Transfusion Medicine, Centre of Postgraduate Medical Education, Warsaw, Poland
3Dept. of Hematology, Institute of Hematology and Transfusion Medicine, Warsaw, Poland
4Bioorganic Chemistry Group, Dept. of Chemistry, Wroclaw University of Technology, Wroclaw, Poland
5Dept. of Immunology, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
6Dept. of Bone Marrow Transplantation and Oncohematology, Maria Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology, Gliwice Branch, Gliwice, Poland

*signifies non-member of ASH