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618.O1.6 618. Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: Biology, Cytogenetics and Molecular Markers in Diagnosis and Prognosis: New Genomic Discoveries in Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: Biology, Cytogenetics and Molecular Markers in Diagnosis and Prognosis Program: Oral and Poster Abstracts
Type: Oral
Monday, December 7, 2015: 2:45 PM-4:15 PM
W331, Level 3 (Orange County Convention Center)
Moderators:
Ilaria Iacobucci, PhD, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and Frank N. van Leeuwen, PhD, Radboud university medical center

Disclosures:
No relevant conflicts of interest to declare.
2:45 PM

Yu Liu, PhD1*, John Easton, PhD2*, Ying Shao2*, Mark Wilkinson3*, Michael Edmonson, PhD1*, Xiaotu Ma, PhD4*, Malcolm A. Smith, MD, PhD5, Michael Rusch, BA6*, Jaime Guidry Auvil7*, Daniela S. Gerhard, PhD8*, Mary V. Relling, PharmD9, Naomi J. Winick, MD10, Elizabeth Raetz, MD11, Meenakshi Devidas, PhD12, Cheryl L. Willman, MD13, Richard C. Harvey, PhD13, William L. Carroll, MD14, Kimberly P. Dunsmore, MD15, Stuart S. Winter, MD16, Brent L Wood, MD, PhD17, James R. Downing, MD3*, Mignon L. Loh, MD18, Stephen P Hunger, MD19, Jinghui Zhang, PhD6* and Charles G. Mullighan, MBBS, MSc, MD3

1Department of Computational Biology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN
2Pediatric Cancer Genome Project Laboratory, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN
3Department of Pathology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN
4Department of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN
5Cancer Therapy Evaluation Program, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD
6Department of Computational Biology, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN
7National Cancer Institute, Bethesda
8Office of Cancer Genomics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD
9Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN
10University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
11Department of Pediatrics, Huntsman Cancer Institute and Primary Children's Hospital, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
12Department of Biostatistics, Colleges of Medicine, Public Health & Health Profession, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
13Department of Pathology, The Cancer Research and Treatment Center, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
14Department of Pediatrics, Perlmutter Cancer Center,, New York University Medical Center, New York, NY
15Health Sciences Center, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
16Department of Pediatrics, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
17Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, Seattle, WA
18Department of Pediatrics, Benioff Children’s Hospital, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
19Department of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA

3:00 PM

Esmé Waanders, PhD1,2, Stephanie M Dobson, MSc3,4*, Xiaotu Ma, PhD5*, Debbie Payne-Turner, BS1*, Guangchun Song, PhD1*, Yiping Fan5*, Zhaohui Gu, PhD1*, Ying Shao6*, Michael Rusch, BA7*, Kelly McCastlain, BS8*, Ilaria Iacobucci, PhD1*, Kathryn G. Roberts1, Shann-Ching Chen, PhD8*, Pankaj Gupta5*, Ji Wen8*, Gang Wu, PhD7*, Jing Ma, PhD1*, Colin Bailey9*, Matthew Lear9*, Scott Olsen10*, Deanna Naeve10*, Geoffrey A. Neale, PhD10*, John Easton, PhD6*, Sima Jeha, MD11, Ching-Hon Pui, MD11, James R. Downing, MD1*, William E. Evans, PharmD12, Mary V. Relling, PharmD12, Jun J Yang, PhD12, John E. Dick, PhD3,4, Jinghui Zhang, PhD7* and Charles G. Mullighan, MBBS, MSc, MD1

1Department of Pathology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN
2Department of Human Genetics, Radboud University Medical Centre and Radboud Center for Molecular Life Sciences, Nijmegen, Netherlands
3Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada
4Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
5Department of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN
6Pediatric Cancer Genome Project Laboratory, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN
7Department of Computational Biology, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN
8Department of Pathology, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN
9St. Jude Biorepository, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN
10Hartwell Center for Bioinformatics and Biotechnology, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN
11Department of Oncology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN
12Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN

3:15 PM

Jinghui Zhang, PhD1*, Kelly McCastlain2*, Chunxu Qu, PhD1*, Gang Wu, PhD1*, Michael Edmonson, PhD1*, Yongjin Li, PhD1*, Lei Wei, PhD2*, Debbie Payne-Turner, BS2*, Hiroki Yoshihara, MD PhD2*, Michelle L. Churchman, PhD2*, Esmé Waanders, PhD2,3, Panagiotis Ntziachristos, PhD4, Iannis Aifantis, PhD4,5, Kathryn G. Roberts2, Jing Ma, PhD2*, Guangchun Song, PhD2*, John Easton, PhD6*, Heather L. Mulder, BS6*, Xiang Chen, PhD1*, Michael Rusch, BA1*, Kristy Boggs, PhD6*, Bhavin Vadodaria, BS6*, James Dalton, BS2*, Marcus L Valentine, PhD7*, Li Ding, PhD8*, Charles Lu, PhD8*, Robert S. Fulton, PhD8*, Lucinda Fulton, PhD8*, Yashodan Tabib, PhD8*, Kerri Ochoa8*, Meenakshi Devidas, PhD9, Deqing Pei10*, Cheng Cheng, Ph.D10*, William E. Evans, PharmD11, Ching-Hon Pui, MD12, Sima Jeha, MD13, Richard C. Harvey, PhD14, I-Ming L Chen, DVM, MS14, Cheryl L. Willman, MD14, Guido Marcucci, MD15, Clara D. Bloomfield, MD16, Jessica Kohlschmidt, PhD, BS, MS16, Krzysztof Mrozek, MD, PhD16, Elisabeth Paietta, PhD17, Martin S. Tallman, MD18, Wendy Stock, MD19, Peter M. Voorhees, MD20, Janis Racevskis, MD21*, Jacob M. Rowe, MD22, Selina Luger, MD23, Steven M. Kornblau, MD24, Sheila A Shurtleff, PhD2*, Susana C. Raimondi, PhD2, Elaine R Mardis, PhD8*, Richard K Wilson, PhD25*, Stephen P Hunger, MD26, Mignon L. Loh, MD27, James R. Downing, MD2,28* and Charles G. Mullighan2

1Department of Computational Biology, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN
2Department of Pathology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN
3Department of Human Genetics, Radboud University Medical Centre and Radboud Center for Molecular Life Sciences, Nijmegen, Netherlands
4Department of Pathology, New York University, New York, NY
5Howard Hughes Medical Institute, New York, NY
6Pediatric Cancer Genome Project, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN
7Cytogenetics Core Facility, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN
8McDonnell Genome Institute, Washington University, St Louis, MO
9Department of Biostatistics, Colleges of Medicine, Public Health & Health Profession, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
10Department of Biostatistics, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN
11Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN
12Oncology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN
13Department of Oncology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN
14Department of Pathology, The Cancer Research and Treatment Center, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
15Gehr Leukemia Center, City of Hope, Duarte, CA
16Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
17Cancer Center, Montefiore Medical Center North Division, Bronx, NY
18Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
19University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL
20Div. of Hematology/Oncology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
21Department of Medicine (Oncology), Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, New York, NY
22Department of Hematology, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel
23Abramson Cancer Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
24Section of Molecular Hematology and Therapy, Department of Leukemia, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
25Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO
26Department of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
27Department of Pediatrics, Benioff Children’s Hospital, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
28Administration, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN

3:30 PM

Ksenia Matlawska-Wasowska, PhD1, Huining Kang, PhD2, Meenakshi Devidas, PhD3, Ji Wen, PhD4*, Richard C Harvey, PhD5, Christian C Nickl6*, Scott Ness, PhD7*, Michael Rusch, BA8*, Yongjin Li, PhD8*, Masahiro Onozawa, MD, PhD.9, Carmen Martinez10*, Brent L Wood, MD, PhD11, Barbara Asselin, MD12, I-Ming L Chen, DVM, MS13, Kathryn G. Roberts14, Andre Baruchel, MD15, Jean Soulier, MD16, Herve Dombret, MD, PhD, FRCP17*, Jinghui Zhang, PhD8*, Richard S. Larson, MD, PhD18, Elizabeth Raetz, MD19, William L. Carroll, MD20, Naomi J. Winick, MD21, Peter D. Aplan, MD22, Mignon L. Loh, MD23, Charles G. Mullighan, MBBS, MSc, MD24, Stephen P Hunger, MD25, Nyla A. Heerema, PhD26, Andrew J. Carroll, PhD27, Kimberly P. Dunsmore, MD28 and Stuart S. Winter, MD29

1Department of Pediatrics, Hematology/Oncology, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, NM
2University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
3Department of Biostatistics, Colleges of Medicine, Public Health & Health Profession, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
4St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis
5Pathology, University of New Mexico Cancer Center, Albuquerque, NM
6Pediatrics, University of New Meico, Albuquerque
7University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, NM
8Department of Computational Biology, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN
9Genetics Branch, NIH/NCI/CCR, Bethesda, MD
10University of New Mexico, Albuuerque
11Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, Seattle, WA
12Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
13Department of Pathology, The Cancer Research and Treatment Center, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
14Pathology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN
15Dept. of Pediatric Hematology, Hopital Saint Louis, Paris, France
16Hematology Laboratory, Saint-Louis Hospital, Paris, France
17Saint-Louis Hospital, Paris, France
18The University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, NM
19Department of Pediatrics, Huntsman Cancer Institute and Primary Children's Hospital, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
20Department of Pediatrics, Perlmutter Cancer Center,, New York University Medical Center, New York, NY
21University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
22NCI/CCR/Genetics branch, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
23Department of Pediatrics, Benioff Children’s Hospital, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
24Department of Pathology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN
25Department of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
26Pathology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
27Department of Genetics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
28Health Sciences Center, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
29Department of Pediatrics, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

3:45 PM

Takaya Moriyama, MD1,2, Monika Metzger, MD3*, Gang Wu, PhD4*, Rina Nishii1,5*, Maoxiang Qian, PhD1*, Meenakshi Devidas, PhD6, Wenjian Yang, PhD1*, Emily Quinn, MS3*, Julie Gastier-Foster, PhD7*, Elizabeth Raetz, MD8, Eric C. Larsen, MD9*, Paul L. Martin, MD, PhD10, W. Paul Bowman, MD11*, Naomi J. Winick, MD12, Yoshihiro Komada, MD, PhD2, Elaine R Mardis, PhD13*, Robert Fulton, PhD14*, Ching-Hon Pui, MD3,15, William E. Evans, PharmD1,15, Jinghui Zhang, PhD4*, Stephen P Hunger, MD16,17, Mary V. Relling, PharmD1,15, Kim E Nichols, MD3, Mignon Loh, MD18 and Jun J Yang, PhD1,15

1Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN
2Department of Pediatrics, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Tsu, Japan
3Department of Oncology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN
4Department of Computational Biology, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN
5Department of Pediatrics and Developmental Biology, Tokyo Medical and Dental University Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
6Department of Biostatistics, Colleges of Medicine, Public Health & Health Profession, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
7Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, and Departments of Pathology and Pediatrics, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
8Department of Pediatrics, Huntsman Cancer Institute and Primary Children's Hospital, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
9Maine Children's Cancer Program, Scarborough, ME
10Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
11Cook Childrens Medical Center, Fort Worth, TX
12University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
13McDonnell Genome Institute, Washington University, St Louis, MO
14McDonnell Genome Institute, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO
15Hematological Malignancies Program, Comprehensive Cancer Center, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN
16Department of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
17Department of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
18Department of Pediatrics, Benioff Children’s Hospital and the Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California at San Francisco, san francisco, CA

4:00 PM

Roland P. Kuiper, PhD1, Simon V. van Reijmersdal1*, Marieke Simonis, PhD2*, Jiangyan Yu, MSc1*, Edwin Sonneveld, PhD3*, Blanca Scheijen, PhD4*, Judith M. Boer, PhD5, Aurélie Boeree, BSc5*, Petra Klous, MSc2*, Peter M Hoogerbrugge, MD, PhD3,6, Mehmet Yilmaz, MSc2*, Frank N. van Leeuwen, PhD4, Monique L. Den Boer, PhD5 and Erik Splinter, PhD2*

1Department of Human Genetics, Radboud university medical center, Nijmegen, Netherlands
2Cergentis BV, Utrecht, Netherlands
3Dutch Childhood Oncology Group, The Hague, Netherlands
4Laboratory of Pediatric Oncology, Radboud university medical center, Nijmegen, Netherlands
5Department of Pediatric Oncology/Hematology, Erasmus MC - Sophia Children's Hospital, Rotterdam, Netherlands
6Prinsess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology, De Bilt, Netherlands

*signifies non-member of ASH