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637.O2.6 637. Myelodysplastic Syndromes – Clinical Studies I

Myelodysplastic Syndromes – Clinical Studies Program: Oral and Poster Abstracts
Type: Oral
Monday, December 7, 2015: 6:15 PM-7:45 PM
W311ABCD, Level 3 (Orange County Convention Center)
Moderators:
Eric Solary, MD, Prof, Gustave Roussy and Rami S. Komrokji, MD, H Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute

Disclosures:
Komrokji: Novartis: Research Funding , Speakers Bureau ; Pharmacylics: Speakers Bureau ; Incyte: Consultancy ; Celgene: Consultancy , Research Funding .
6:15 PM

Rafael Bejar, MD, PhD1, Elli Papaemmanuil, PhD2*, Torsten Haferlach3, Guillermo Garcia-Manero, MD4, Jaroslaw P. Maciejewski, MD, Ph.D.5, Mikkael A. Sekeres, MD, MS6, Matthew J. Walter, MD7, Timothy A. Graubert, MD8, Mario Cazzola, MD9, Luca Malcovati, MD10*, Seishi Ogawa, MD, Ph.D.11, Pierre Fenaux, MD, PhD12, Eva Hellstrom-Lindberg, MD, PhD13, Wolfgang Kern, MD3, Jacqueline Boultwood, PhD14, Andrea Pellagatti, PhD15*, David Bowen, MD, PhD16, Sudhir Tauro, PhD17*, Michael J Groves, PhD18*, Paresh Vyas, MD, PhD19, Lynn Quek, MD20*, Aziz Nazha, MD21, Felicitas Thol, MD22, Michael Heuser, M.D.23, Lee-Yung Shih, MD24, Eric Padron, MD25, David Sallman, M.D.26, Rami S. Komrokji, MD27, Alan F. List, MD28, Valeria Santini, MD29, Michaela Fontenay, MD, PhD30*, Peter J Campbell, MD, PhD31*, Heinz Tüchler32*, Kristen Stevenson, MS33*, Donna S Neuberg, ScD33, Peter Greenberg, MD34 and Benjamin L Ebert, MD, PhD35

1UCSD Moores Cancer Center, La Jolla, CA
2Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York
3MLL Munich Leukemia Laboratory, Munich, Germany
4Department of Leukemia, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, Houston, TX
5Translational Hematology and Oncology Research, Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
6Leukemia Program, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
7Dept of Medicine, Div of Oncology, Washington Univ. in St. Louis, Saint Louis, MO
8Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
9Department of Hematology Oncology, Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy
10Department of Hematology Oncology, Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Pavia, Italy
11Department of Pathology and Tumor Biology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
12Service d'Hématologie Séniors, Hôpital Saint-Louis, Université Paris 7, Paris, France
13Dept. of Med., Div. of Hem., Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
14LRF Molecular Haematology Unit, NDCLS, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom
15University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
16St. James's Institute of Oncology, Leeds Teaching Hospitals, Leeds, United Kingdom
17Division of Cancer Research, Dundee School of Medicine, Dundee, United Kingdom
18Dept of Haematology, Ninewells Hospital, Dundee, United Kingdom
19MRC Molecular Haematology Unit, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine and Department of Haematology, University of Oxford and Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust, UK, Oxford, United Kingdom
20Haematology, London, United Kingdom
21Leukemia Program, Department of Hematology and Oncology, Cleveland Clinic, Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland, OH
22Department of Hematology, Hemostasis, Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
23Hematology, Hemostasis, Oncology and SCT, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
24Department of Hematology-Oncology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Linkou, College of Medicine Chang Gung University, Taipei, Taiwan
25Malignant Hematology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, Tampa, FL
26Dept. of Malignant Hematology, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL
27Malignant Hematology Department, H Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, Tampa, FL
28Department of Hematologic Malignancies, Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL
29AOU Careggi, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
30Cochin Hospital, University Paris 5, Paris, France
31Cancer genome Project, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom
32Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Leukemia Resaerch, Vienna, Austria
33Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
34Stanford Cancer Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA
35Division of Hematology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA

6:30 PM

Mikkael A. Sekeres, MD, MS1, Megan Othus, PhD2*, Alan F. List, MD3, Olatoyosi Odenike, MD4, Richard M. Stone, MD5, Steven D. Gore, MD6, Mark R Litzow, MD7, Rena Buckstein, MD, FRCPC8, Min Fang, MD, PhD9*, Diane Roulston, Ph.D.10*, Clara D. Bloomfield, MD11, Yanming Zhang, MD12, Mario R. Velasco, MD13*, Rakesh Gaur, MD, MPH14, Ehab Atallah, MD15, Eyal C. Attar, MD16, Frederick R Appelbaum, MD17 and Harry P. Erba, MD, PhD18*

1Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
2SWOG Statistical Center, Seattle, WA
3Department of Hematologic Malignancies, Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL
4University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL
5Hematologic Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
6Yale Cancer Center, New Haven, CT
7Division of Hematology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
8Hematology/Oncology, Odette Cancer Centre, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center, Toronto, Canada
9Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, Seattle, WA
10Pathology, Cytogenetics Laboratory, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
11Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
12Department of Pathology, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
13Cancer Care Specialists of Central Illinois, Heartland NCORP, Decatur, IL
14Kansas City NCORP, Prairie Village, KS
15Department of Hematology/Oncology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
16Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
17Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA
18University of Alabama at Birmingham and UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center, Birmingham, AL

6:45 PM

Rami S. Komrokji, MD1, Amy E. DeZern, MD, MHS2, Katrina Zell, MA, MS3*, Najla H. Al Ali, BDS, MSc1*, Christopher Estling3*, Cassie Zimmerman, MPH3*, Wesley Hand2*, Francis Brown4*, Nicole Rizzo5*, John Barnard, PhD3*, Gail J Roboz, MD6, Guillermo Garcia-Manero, MD7, David P. Steensma, MD4 and Mikkael A. Sekeres, MD, MS3

1Malignant Hematology Department, H Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, Tampa, FL
2Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
3Leukemia Program, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
4Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
5Weill Cornell Medical College, New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY
6Joan and Sanford I. Weill Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY
7Department of Leukemia, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX

7:00 PM

Shyamala C. Navada, MD1, Lewis R. Silverman, MD1*, Katherine P. Hearn, BSN, RN2*, Rosalie Odchimar-Reissig, RN1*, Erin P. Demakos, RN, CCRN1*, Yesid Alvarado, MD2, Naval Daver, MD3, Courtney DiNardo, MD2, Marina Konopleva, MD, PhD2, Gautam Borthakur, MD2, Naveen Pemmaraju, MD2, Tapan Kadia, MD3, Pierre Fenaux, MD, PhD4, Steve Fruchtman, MD5*, Nozar Azarnia, PhD5* and Guillermo Garcia-Manero, MD2

1Tisch Cancer Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY
2Department of Leukemia, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
3Department of Leukemia, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
4Service d’Hématologie Séniors, Hôpital Saint-Louis, Université Paris 7, Paris, France
5Onconova Therapeutics, Inc, Newtown, PA

7:15 PM

Guillermo Garcia-Manero, MD1, Jesus G. Berdeja, MD2, Rami S. Komrokji, MD3, James Essell, MD4, Roger M. Lyons, MD5, Michael Maris, MD6, Amy E. DeZern, MD, MHS7, Mikkael A. Sekeres, MD, MS8 and Gail J Roboz, MD9

1Department of Leukemia, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, Houston, TX
2Sarah Cannon Research Institute, Nashville, TN
3H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL
4Oncology/Hematology Care, Cincinnati, OH
5Cancer Care Center of South Texas, San Antonio, TX
6Colorado Blood Cancer Institute, Denver, CO
7Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
8Leukemia Program, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
9Joan and Sanford I. Weill Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY

7:30 PM

Michael Heuser, MD1, Christian Koenecke, M.D.2*, Razif Gabdoulline3*, Patrick Löffeld4*, Vera Dobbernack4*, Victoria Panagiota, M.D.2*, Sabrina Klesse1*, Michael Stadler, MD1*, Juergen Krauter, MD5*, Elke Dammann4*, Martin Wichmann6*, Rabia Shahswar, M.D.2*, Sabin Bhuju7*, Robert Geffers, PhD8*, Brigitte Schlegelberger, MD, PhD9, Gudrun Göhring, MD9*, Moritz Kleine4*, Wiebke Brauns4*, Uwe Platzbecker, MD10, Christian Thiede, MD11, Thomas Schroeder, MD12*, Guido Kobbe, MD13*, Arnold Ganser, M.D.1, Nicolaus Kroeger, MD14 and Felicitas Thol, MD1

1Department of Hematology, Hemostasis, Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
2Hematology, Hemostasis, Oncology and SCT, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
3Dept. of Hematology, Hemostasis, Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
4Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
5Department of Hematology and Oncology, Klinikum Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
6Department of Hematology, Hemostasis, Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation, Hannover Medical School, Hannoverg, Germany
7Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany
8Genome Analysis Research Group, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany
9Institute of Cell and Molecular Pathology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
10Carl Gustav Carus an der Technischen Universität, Universitätsklinikum, Dresden, Germany
11Medizinische Klinik und Poliklinik I, Universitätsklinikum Carl Gustav Carus der TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany
12Department of Hematology, Oncology, and Clinical Immunology, Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf, Duesseldorf, Germany
13Dept. of Hematology, Oncology and clinical Immunology, Heinrich-Heine University Duesseldorf, Duesseldorf, Germany
14Department of Stem Cell Transplantation, University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

*signifies non-member of ASH