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624.P1.70 624. Lymphoma: Therapy with Biologic Agents, excluding Pre-Clinical Models: Poster I

Lymphoma: Therapy with Biologic Agents, excluding Pre-Clinical Models 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)

Dan Lu1*, Jin Yan Jin1*, Leonid Gibiansky2*, William R. Gillespie3*, Priya Agarwal1*, Cheryl Jones1*, Yu-Waye Chu1*, Michael K. Wenger1, Jamie Hirata1, Chunze Li1* and Sandhya Girish1*

1Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, CA
2QuantPharm LLC, North Potomac, MD
3Metrum Research Group LLC, Tariffville, CT

Paul G. Rubinstein, MD1, Page Moore, Ph.D2*, David H. Henry, MD3, Lee Ratner, MD, PhD4*, Elad Sharon, MD, MPH5* and Ariela Noy, MD6

1Department of Medicine, John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County, Chicago, IL
2Department of Biostatistics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR
3Pennsylvania Onc./Hem. Associates, Philadelphia, PA
4Division of Oncology, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO
5National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD
6Medicine; Lymphoma Service, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Ctr., New York, NY

Wyndham H. Wilson, MD, PhD1, Leslie L. Popplewell, MD2, Tycel Phillips, MD3*, Amy S. Kimball, MD, PhD4, Saurabh Chhabra, MD5*, Jerry Ping, PhD6*, Jutta Neuenburg, MD6*, Nora Cavazos, MD6*, Louis M Staudt, MD1 and Sven de Vos, MD, PhD7

1National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD
2City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, CA
3University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
4University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
5Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
6Pharmacyclics LLC, an AbbVie Company, Sunnyvale, CA
7Division of Hematology/Oncology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

Wojciech Jurczak, MD, PhD1, Pier Luigi Zinzani, MD, PhD2, Gianluca Gaidano, MD, PhD3, Andre Goy, MD4, Mariano Provencio, MD, PhD5*, Zsolt Nagy, MD, PhD6*, Tadeusz Robak, MD, PhD7, Kami J. Maddocks, MD8, Christian Buske, MD9*, Roman Pawel Korolkiewicz, MD, PhD10*, Frank Striebel, PhD10* and Kristie Blum, MD11

1Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
2Institute of Hematology “L. & A. Seràgnoli”, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
3Division of Hematology, Department of Translational Medicine, Amedeo Avogadro University of Eastern Piedmont, Novara, Italy
4John Theurer Cancer Center at Hackensack University Medical Center, Hackensack, NJ
5Department of Medical Oncology, University Hospital Puerta De Hierro, Madrid, Spain
61st Department of Internal Medicine, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary
7Medical University of Lodz and Copernicus Memorial Hospital, Lodz, Poland
8Division of Hematology, Department of Internal Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
9Comprehensive Cancer Center Ulm, Institute of Experimental Cancer Research, University Hospital of Ulm, Ulm, Germany
10MorphoSys AG, Martinsried, Germany
11Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Hematology, The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbus, OH

Maria Christina Cox, MD PhD1, Simone Battella2*, Raffaella La Scaleia2*, Arianna di Napoli3*, Sabrina Pelliccia1*, Alessandra Porzia4*, Fabrizio Mainiero2*, Bruno Monarca3*, Luigi Ruco3*, Angela Santoni4,5* and Gabriella Palmieri2*

1Hematology, Azienda Ospedaliera S. Andrea, Rome, Italy
2Department of Experimental Medicine, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy
3Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy
4Department of Molecular Medicine, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy
5Istituto Pasteur-Fondazione Cenci Bolognetti, Rome, Italy

Lode J. Swinnen, MBChB1, Anne O'Neill2*, Philip H Imus, MD1*, Sachin Gujar, MBBS, MD3*, David Schiff, MD4*, Lawrence Kleinberg5*, Ranjana Advani6, Erin Dunbar, MD7*, Dennis F. Moore Jr., MD8 and Stuart Grossman, MD1*

1Medical Oncology, Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD
2BIostatistics Core, Dana Farber / Harvard Cancer Center, Cambridge, MA
3Department of Radiology, Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD
4University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
5Radiation Oncology, Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD
6Stanford Cancer Center, Stanford, CA
7University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
8Cancer Center of Kansas, Wichita CCOP, Wichita, KS

Marina Motta, MD1, Marco Chiarini, MSC2*, Marta Petullà, PharmD3*, Claudia Ghidini, BSC2*, Marion Vaglio Tessitore, BSC2*, Viviana Giustini, MSC2*, Chiara Pagani, MD3*, Antonella Anastasia, MD3*, Samantha Ferrari, MD3*, Alessandra Tucci3*, Luisa Imberti, MD2* and Giuseppe Rossi, MD4

1Department of Haematology, AO Spedali Civili, Brescia, Italy
2Centro di Ricerca Emato-oncologica AIL, AO Spedali Civili, Brescia, Italy
3UO Ematologia, AO Spedali Civili, Brescia, Italy
4UO Ematologia, Azienda Ospedaliera Spedali Civili, Brescia, Italy

Bruce D. Cheson, MD1, Peter C Trask, PhD, MPH2*, John Gribben, MD, DSc3, Natalie Dimier4*, Eva Kimby, MD, PhD5, Pieternella J Lugtenburg, MD, PhD6, Catherine Thieblemont7, Elisabeth Wassner Fritsch, MD8* and Laurie H Sehn, MD, MPH9

1Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC
2Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, CA
3Centre for Haemato-Oncology, Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom
4F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd, Welwyn, United Kingdom
5Department of Medicine at Huddinge, Division of Hematology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
6Department of Hematology, Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, Rotterdam, Netherlands
7Hôpital Saint-Louis, Paris, France
8F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd, Basel, Switzerland
9British Columbia Cancer Agency and the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Veronika Bachanova, MD1, Frederick Lansigan, MD2, Donald P. Quick, MD3, Daniel Vlock, MD4*, Stephen Gillies, PhD4* and Ryotaro Nakamura, MD5

1University of Minnesota Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN
2Hematology, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH
3Joe Arrington Cancer Center, Lubbock, TX
4Alopexx Oncology, LLC, Concord, MA
5Department of Hematology and Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, CA

Gunilla Enblad, MD PhD1,2*, Hannah Karlsson, PhD1*, Kristina Wikstrom, PhD3*, Magnus Essand, PhD1*, Barbara Savoldo, MD, PhD4*, Malcolm K. Brenner, MD, PhD5, Gianpietro Dotti, MD5*, Helene Hallbook, MD PhD6,7*, Martin Hoglund, MD, PhD8,9, Hans Hagberg, MD, PhD2,10* and Angelica Loskog, PhD11*

1Immunology, Genetics and pathology, Uppsala university, Uppsala, Sweden
2Oncology, Uppsala university hospital, Uppsala, Sweden
3VECURA, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
4Center for Cell and Gene Therapy, Baylor Collage of Medicine, Houston, TX
5Center for Cell and Gene Therapy, Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children's Hospital and Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX
6Medical Sciences, Uppsala university, Uppsala, Sweden
7Section of Hematology, Uppsala university hospital, Uppsala, Sweden
8Uppsala University, Department of Medical Sciences, Section of Hematology, Uppsala, Sweden
9Uppsala university Hospital, Section of Hematology, Uppsala, Sweden
10Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala university, Uppsala, Sweden
11Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala University, Uppsale, Sweden

Sandra Lockmer, MD, PhD stud1,2*, Björn E Wahlin, MD, PhD1,2, Bjorn Ostenstad, MD, PhD3*, Åsa Jeppson-Ahlberg2*, Birgitta Sander, MD, PhD2,4 and Eva Kimby, MD, PhD1

1Department of Medicine at Huddinge, Division of Hematology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
2Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
3Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
4Department of Laboratory Medicine, Division of Pathology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Michael P. Chu, MD1, Joshua Brody, MD2, Holbrook E Kohrt, MD, Ph.D.1, Matthew J. Frank, MD, PhD1, Michael Khodadoust, MD, PhD1, Sunil Reddy, MD3*, Ranjana H Advani, MD4, Neel K. Gupta, M.D.5, Ginna Laport, MD6, Lauren S Maeda, MD5, Everett Meyer, MD, PhD7, David B. Miklos, MD, PhD8, Robert S. Negrin, MD6, Andrew R. Rezvani, MD9, Wen-Kai Weng, MD, PhD6, Kevin Sheehan, PhD10*, Malek Faham, MD, PhD11, Debra K Czerwinski1, Ami Okada, PhD1* and Ronald Levy, MD5

1Division of Oncology, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA
2Ichan School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
3Medicine/Oncology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA
4Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, CA
5Stanford University, Stanford, CA
6Division of Blood and Marrow Transplantation, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
7Division of Blood and Marrow Transplantation, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA
8Department of Medicine, Division of Blood and Marrow Transplantation, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, CA
9Division of Blood & Marrow Transplantation, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
10Stanford medical center, Stanford, CA
11Sequenta, Inc., South San Francisco, CA

Steven M Horwitz, MD1, Andrei R. Shustov, MD2, Andres Forero-Torres3, Nancy L Bartlett, MD4, Ranjana Advani5, Barbara Pro6, Robert Chen7, Andrew J Davies, MRCP8*, Tim Illidge9, Dirk Huebner10, Dana A. Kennedy11 and Michelle A. Fanale12

1Department of Medicine, Lymphoma Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
2University of Washington Medical Center – Seattle Cancer Care Alliance & Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA
3University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
4Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO
5Stanford Cancer Center, Stanford, CA
6Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA
7City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, CA
8Southampton University, SCTU, Southampton, United Kingdom
9Institute of Cancer Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
10Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Takeda Pharmaceuticals Limited, Cambridge, MA
11Seattle Genetics, Inc., Bothell, WA
12University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX

Matthew A. Lunning, DO1, Julie Vose1, Nathan Fowler, MD2, Loretta Nastoupil, MD3, Jan A. Burger, MD, PhD4, William Wierda, MD, PhD3, Marshall T. Schreeder, MD5, Tanya Siddiqi, MD6, Christopher Flowers, MD7, Jonathon B. Cohen, MD7, Susan Blumel, RN, BSN1*, Myra Miguel, RN3*, Kathy Cutter, RN, BSN5*, Emily K. Pauli, BMBS, PharmD5*, Ryan Handy, BS7*, Peter Sportelli8, Hari P. Miskin, MS8*, Michael S. Weiss8* and Susan O'Brien, MD9

1University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE
2Department of Lymphoma and Myeloma, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
3University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
4Department of Leukemia, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
5Clearview Cancer Institute, Huntsville, AL
6City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, CA
7Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University, Atlanta, GA
8TG Therapeutics, Inc., New York, NY
9University of California - Irvine, Orange, CA

Debra K Czerwinski1, Steven R Long, MD2*, Michael Khodadoust, MD, PhD1, Matthew J. Frank, MD, PhD1, Michael P. Chu, MD1, Ami Okada, PhD1*, Kathleen A McDonald, BA1*, Holbrook E Kohrt, MD, Ph.D.1, Nancy L Bartlett, MD3, Patrick M. Reagan, MD4, Jonathan W. Friedberg, MD, MMSc5, Leo I. Gordon, MD6, Robert Coffman, PhD7, Robert Janssen, MD7* and Ronald Levy, MD1

1Division of Oncology, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA
2Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA
3Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO
4Wilmot Cancer Institute, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY
5University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
6Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Division of Hematology/Oncology, Chicago, IL
7Dynavax Technologies, Berkeley, CA

Sheeba K. Thomas, MD1, Wael A. Harb, MD2, Joseph Thaddeus Beck, MD3, Gabrail Nashat, MD4*, M. Lia Palomba, MD5, Stephen M Ansell, MD, PhD6, Herbert Eradat, MD7, Edward N. Libby III, MD8, Ranjana H Advani, MD9, Julio Hajdenberg, MD10*, Leonard T Heffner, MD11, James Hoffman, MD12*, David H. Vesole, MD13, Lindsey Simov14*, Nancy Wyant14*, Julie Brevard, MPH14*, James O'Leary, MD14* and Sudhir Agrawal, D.Phil14*

1Department of Lymphoma/Myeloma, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
2Horizon Oncology Center, Lafayette, IN
3Highlands Oncology Group, P.A., Fayetteville, AR
4Gabrail Cancer Center, Canton, OH
5Department of Medicine, Lymphoma Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
6Department of Medicine/Division of Hematology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
7David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
8Department of Medicine, Division of Medical Oncology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
9Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, CA
10M.D. Anderson Orlando, Orlando, FL
11Hematology and Medical Oncology, Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University, Atlanta, GA
12Division of Hematology-Oncology, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL
13John Theurer Cancer Center, Hackensack University Medical Center, Hackensack, NJ
14Idera Pharmaceuticals, Cambridge, MA

Antonello Pinto, MD1*, Vincenzo Pavone, MD2, Francesco Angrilli, MD3*, Mariangela Saggese, PharmD1*, Stefania Crisci, ScD1*, Caterina Patti, MD4*, Pier Luigi Zinzani, MD, PhD5, Alfonso Maria D'Arco, MD6*, Elena Cavalieri, MD7*, Attilio Guarini, MD8*, Michele Spina, MD9, Daniela Carlino, MD2*, Simona Falorio, MD3*, Emanuela Morelli, MD1*, Manuela Arcamone, MD1*, Ferdinando Frigeri, MD, PhD1*, Annarosaria De Chiara, MD10*, Rosaria De Filippi, MD, PhD11* and Gaetano Corazzelli, MD1*

1Hematology-Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation Unit, Istituto Nazionale Tumori, Fondazione 'G. Pascale', IRCCS, Naples, Italy
2Division of Hematology, Ospedale G. Panico, Tricase, Lecce, Italy
3Hematology and BMT Center, Spirito Santo Hospital, Pescara, Italy
4Dept. of Hematology, Ospedale V. Cervello, Palermo, Italy
5Institute of Hematology “L. & A. Seràgnoli”, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
6Hematology-Oncology, Ospedale A. Tortora, Pagani, Italy
7Hematology, Azienda Ospedaliera Sant'Andrea, Rome, Italy
8Hematology, Ospedale oncologico 'Giovanni Paolo II', I.R.C.C.S., Bari, Italy
9Division of Medical Oncology, National Cancer Institute, Aviano, Italy
10Pathology Unit, Istituto Nazionale Tumori Fondazione 'G. Pascale', Naples, Italy
11Department of Clinical Medicine and Surgery, Federico II University, Naples, Italy

Georg Hess, MD1*, Simon Rule, MD2*, Wojciech Jurczak, MD, PhD3, Mats Jerkeman, MD, PhD4, Rodrigo Santucci, MD5, Chiara Rusconi, MD6*, Dolores Caballero7*, Cristina M. Joao, MD, PhD8*, Mathias Witzens-Harig, MD9*, Isabelle Bence-Bruckler, MD, FRCPC10*, Seok-Goo Cho11*, Nibedita Bandyopadhyay, PhD12*, Jenna Goldberg, MD12*, John Bothos, PhD12*, Christopher Enny, BS12*, Jessica Vermeulen, MD, PhD13*, Shana Traina, PhD14* and Martin H. Dreyling, MD, PhD15

1Department of Internal Medicine III (Hematology, Oncology, Pneumology), University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany
2Department of Haematology, Derriford Hospital, Plymouth, United Kingdom
3Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
4Department of Oncology, Skåne University Hospital, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
5HEMOMED, São Paulo, Brazil
6Division of Hematology, Niguarda Ca' Granda Hospital, Milan, Italy
7Hematologia, Hospital Clinico Universitario Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
8Hematology department, Instituto Português de Oncologia de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
9Dep. Med. V, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
10Division of Hematology, The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, ON, Canada
11Department of Hematology, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, South Korea
12Janssen Research & Development, Raritan, NJ
13Janssen Pharmaceutical Research & Development, Leiden, Netherlands
14Janssen Pharmaceutical Research & Development, Raritan, NJ
15Dept. of Medicine III, Univ. Hospital Grosshadern/LMU, Munich, Germany

Peter Martin, MD1, Armando Armas, MD2*, Ajay K Gopal, MD3, Emmanuel Gyan, MD, PhD4, Nina D. Wagner-Johnston, MD5, Jan Walewski, MD PhD Prof6, Steve Abella, MD7*, Wei Ye7*, Betsy Philip7*, Bess Sorenson7* and Sven de Vos, MD, PhD8

1Division of Hematology/Oncology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY
2Calaway Young Cancer Center, Glenwood Springs, CO
3Division of Medical Oncology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
4Service d'Hématologie et thérapie cellulaire, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Tours, France
5Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO
6Department of Lymphoproliferative Diseases, Maria Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology, Warsaw, Poland
7Gilead Sciences, Inc., Foster City, CA
8Division of Hematology/Oncology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

Herve Ghesquieres, MD, PhD1*, Celine Segura-Ferlay, MS2*, Gaelle Fossard, MD1*, Francois Ducray, MD, PhD3*, Violaine Safar, MD1*, Philippe Rey, MD1*, Emmanuelle Nicolas-Virelizier, MD1*, Catherine Sebban, MD1*, Amine Belhabri, MD1*, Pierre Biron, MD1*, Emmanuel Jouanneau, MD, PhD3*, David Meyronnet, MD, PhD4*, Catherine Chassagne-Clement, MD5*, Jerome Honnorat, MD, PhD3* and Jean-Yves Blay, MD, PhD1

1Onco-hematology, Centre Leon Berard, University Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Lyon, France
2Statistics, Centre Leon Berard, University Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Lyon, France
3Neurology, Hopital Neurologique, University Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Lyon, France
4Pathology, Hopital Neurologique, University Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Lyon, France
5Pathology, Centre Leon Berard, University Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Lyon, France

Jeff P. Sharman, MD1, Leonard M. Klein, MD2, Michael Boxer, MD3, Kathryn S. Kolibaba, MD4, Steve Abella, MD5*, Clarence Eng, MPH5*, Jing He6*, Jing Hu, PhD5* and Christopher A. Yasenchak, MD7

1Willamette Valley Cancer Institute, Springfield, OR
2Illinois Cancer Specialists, Niles, IL
3Arizona Oncology Associates, Tucson, AZ
4Compass Oncology/US Oncology Research, Vancouver, WA
5Gilead Sciences, Inc., Foster City, CA
6Gilead Sciences, Inc, Foster City, CA
7Willamette Valley Cancer Institute and Research Center/US Oncology Research, Springfield, OR

Christa Roe, RN, BS, OCN1*, Jennifer Rock-Klotz, BA1*, Elyce Turba, RN, MSN, OCN1*, Christopher Rodriguez Salamanca, PA1*, Janice Bennett, MS, ARNP-C1*, Farrah Farquharson, PA1*, Sem Bastien, MS, ARNP-C1*, Barbara Williams, RN, BS, OCN2*, Rebecca Levy, MS, ARNP-C2*, Yibo Li, BS1*, Michael Montejo, M.D.3*, Ernesto Ayala, M.D.4, Pedro Horna, M.D.5*, Lewis F Glass, M.D.2*, Rami S. Komrokji, MD6 and Lubomir Sokol, M.D, Ph.D.1

1Malignant Hematology, H Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL
2Cutaneous Oncology, H Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL
3Radiation Oncology, H Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL
4Blood and Marrow Transplantation, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL
5Hematopathology and Laboratory Medicine, H Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL
6Malignant Hematology Department, H Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, Tampa, FL

Andrés J.M. Ferreri1, Marianna Sassone1*, Marianna Chiozzotto2*, Michele Spina, MD3, Alessandra Tucci4*, Alice Di Rocco5*, Alberto Fabbri6*, Caterina Stelitano7*, Maurizio Frezzato8*, Renato Zambello9*, Giovanni Bertoldero10*, Chiara Rusconi, MD11*, Annalisa Arcari12*, Lydia Scarfo1*, Silvia Govi1*, Maurilio Ponzoni, M.D.1,13 and Francesco Zaja, MD2

1Unit of Lymphoid Malignancies, Department of Onco-Hematology, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy
2Centro Trapianti e Terapie Cellulari “Carlo Melzi” DISM, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria S. Maria Misericordia, Udine, Italy
3Division of Medical Oncology, National Cancer Institute, Aviano, Italy
4Division of Hematology, Spedali Civili, Brescia, Italy
5Division of Hematology, University "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy
6A.O. Università Senese, Siena, Italy
7Divsion of Hematology, A. O. Bianchi-Melacrino-Morelli, Reggio Calabria, Italy
8Division of Hematology, San Bortolo Hospital, Vicenza, Italy
9Department of Medicine, Hematology and Clinical Immunology Section, Padua University School of Medicine, Padua, Italy
10U.O. di Oncologia ed Ematologia Oncologica, Ospedale di Mirano, Mirano, Italy
11Division of Hematology, Niguarda Ca' Granda Hospital, Milan, Italy
12Department of Oncology and Hematology, G. da Saliceto Hospital, Piacenza, Italy
13Pathology Unit, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy

*signifies non-member of ASH