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637A.O1.3 637. Myelodysplastic Syndromes – Clinical Studies: Prognostic Systems and Molecular Testing

Myelodysplastic Syndromes – Clinical Studies Program: Oral and Poster Abstracts
Type: Oral
Monday, December 7, 2015: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
Hall E1, Level 2 (Orange County Convention Center)
Moderators:
Stephen D. Nimer, MD, University of Miami and H. Joachim Deeg, MD, University of Washington

Disclosures:
No relevant conflicts of interest to declare.
10:30 AM

Aziz Nazha, MD1, Mayur Subhash Narkhede, MD2, Tomas Radivoyevitch, PhD3*, Matt Kalaycio, MD4, Bhumika J. Patel5*, Aaron T. Gerds, MD, MS6, Sudipto Mukherjee, MD, PhD6, Michael Clemente, MS7*, Cassandra M Hirsch8*, Anjali S. Advani, MD6, Bartlomiej Przychodzen, MSc9*, Hetty E. Carraway, MD, MBA6, Jaroslaw P. Maciejewski, MD, Ph.D.5 and Mikkael A. Sekeres, MD, MS6

1Leukemia Program, Department of Hematology and Oncology, Cleveland Clinic, Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland, OH
2Leukemia Program, Department of Hematology and Oncology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
3Quantitative Health Sciences, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
4Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
5Translational Hematology and Oncology Research, Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
6Leukemia Program, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
7Experimental Hematology and Hematopoiesis, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH
8Department of Translational Hematology and Oncology Research, Taussing Cancer Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
9Haematological Medicine, Department of Translational hematology and Oncology Research, Taussing Cancer Institute, Cleveland Clinic, London, United Kingdom

10:45 AM

Vera Ademà, MSc1*, Laura Palomo, MSc1*, Przychodzen P Bartlomiej2*, Diez-campelo Maria, MD3*, Naoko Hosono, MD, PhD4*, Mar Mallo, PhD1*, Blanca Xicoy, MD, PhD5*, Elisa Luño6*, Bhumika J. Patel7*, Cassandra M Hirsch8*, Lurdes Zamora, PhD5*, Thomas LaFramboise, PhD9*, Leonor Arenillas, MD10*, Albert Perez-Ladaga, PhD11*, Carme Pedro12*, Michael J. Clemente8*, Joan Bargay, MD13*, Julia Montoro, MD14*, Juan Carlos Caballero, MD3*, Brayan Merchan, MD15*, Victor Noriega, MD16*, Victor Marcos-Betes, MD17*, Consuelo Del Cañizo, MD, PhD18, Rosario Lopez, PhD19*, José María Raya, MD20*, Joaquin Sanchez-Garcia, MD21*, Eduardo Rios22*, Montserrat Arnan, MD, PhD23*, Lourdes Florensa, MD, PhD10*, Raquel de Paz24*, Angelina Lemes, MD25*, Paula Gomez-Marzo, MSc1*, Nuri Haro1*, Francisco Fuster-Tormo, MSc1*, Monica Bayes, PhD26*, Ivo Gut27*, Rafael Bejar, MD, PhD11, Mikkael A. Sekeres, MD, MS28, Jaroslaw P. Maciejewski, MD, Ph.D.7 and Francesc Sole, PhD29

1MDS Research Group, Institut de Recerca Contra la Leucèmia Josep Carreras, ICO-Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Badalona, Spain
2Department of Translational hematology and Oncology Research, Taussing Cancer Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
3Servicio de Hematología, Centro de Investigación del Cáncer, IBSAL (Instituto de Biomedicina de Salamanca) y BMCC, Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
4Department of Hematology and Oncology, University of Fukui, Fukui, Japan
5Hematology Service, ICO-Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol, Institut de Recerca Contra la Leucèmia Josep Carreras, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Badalona, Spain
6Hospital Universitario Central Asturias, Oviedo, Spain
7Translational Hematology and Oncology Research, Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
8Department of Translational Hematology and Oncology Research, Taussing Cancer Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
9Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
10Hematological Cytology Laboratory, Hospital del Mar, GRENTHE, IMIM (Hospital del Mar Research Institute), Barcelona, Spain
11UCSD Moores Cancer Center, La Jolla, CA
12Servei d’Hematologia Clínica, Hospital del Mar, GRETNHE, IMIM, Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
13Department of Hematology. Hospital Son Llatzer, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
14Hospital Vall d'Hebrón, Barcelona, Spain
15Servei de Hematologia. Hospital Vall d’Hebron, Barcelona, Spain
16Servicio de Hematologia, Complejo hospitalario universitario A Coruña - Sergas, A Coruna, Spain
17H Arnau de Vilanova de Lleida, Lleida, Spain
18Servicio de Hematología, Centro de Investigación del Cáncer, IBSAL (Instituto de Biomedicina de Salamanca) y BMCC, Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
19Hospital Althaia, Manresa, Spain
20Hospital Universitario de Canarias, Tenerife, Spain
21Servicio de Hematología. Hospital Reina Sofía, Cordoba, Spain
22Haematology Service, Hospital Universitario Virgen de Valme, Sevilla, Spain
23Institut Català d'Oncologia, Hospital Duran i Reynals, Barcelona, Spain
24Servicio de Hematología. Hospital La Paz, Madrid, Spain
25Hospital Dr. Negrín, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas, Spain
26Centro Nacional de Análisis Genómico, Parc Científic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
27CNAG, Barcelona, Spain
28Leukemia Program, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
29Josep Carreras Leukaemia Research Institute, Barcelona, Spain

11:00 AM

Andrea Kuendgen, MD1*, Heinz Tuechler2*, Meritxell Nomdedeu3*, Guillermo Garcia-Manero, MD4, Rami S. Komrokji, MD5, Mikkael A. Sekeres, MD, MS6, Matteo Giovanni Della Porta, MD7*, Alan F List, MD8, Mario Cazzola7, Amy E. DeZern, MD, MHS9, Gail J. Roboz, MD10, David P. Steensma, MD11, Arjan A van de Loosdrecht, MD, PhD12, Arjan A van de Loosdrecht, MD, PhD12, Richard F. Schlenk, MD13, Xavier Calvo14*, Sabine Blum15*, Arturo Pereira3*, Peter Valent, MD16, Dolors Costa3*, Aristoteles Giagounidis, MD, PhD17, Luis Benlloch18*, Uwe Platzbecker, MD19, Carmen Pedro, MD20*, Michael Lübbert, MD21*, Maria Teresa Cedena22*, Sigrid Machherndl-Spandl, MD23, Maria Lopez-Pavia, MD18*, Detlef Haase, MD24*, Ana Africa Martin25*, Claudia D Baldus, MD26, Montserrat Martínez de Sola27*, Reinhard Stauder, MD, MSc28*, Brayan Merchan, MD29*, Claudia Mende1*, María Teresa Ardanaz, MD30*, Christina Ganster31*, Francesc Cobo32*, Thomas Schroeder, MD1*, Jordi Esteve33, Rainer Haas, MD1*, Nomdedeu Benet3*, Peter L. Greenberg, MD34, Ulrich Germing, MD1* and Guillermo Sanz, MD, PhD35

1Department of Hematology, Oncology, and Clinical Immunology, Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf, Duesseldorf, Germany
2Boltzmann Institute for Leukemia Research, Hanusch Hospital, Vienna, Austria
3Hospital Clinic, Spanish MDS Cooperative Group, Barcelona, Spain
4Department of Leukemia, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, Houston, TX
5Malignant Hematology Department, H Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, Tampa, FL
6Leukemia Program, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
7Department of Hematology Oncology, Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy
8Department of Malignant Hematology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, Tampa, FL
9Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
10Division of Hematology / Oncology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY
11Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
12Department of Hematology, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands
13Department of Internal Medicine III, University Hospital of Ulm, Ulm, Germany
14Hospital del Mar, Spanish MDS Cooperative Group, Barcelona, Spain
15Haematology Service, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland
16Ludwig Boltzmann Cluster Oncology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
17Marien Hospital Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
18Hospital Universitario La Fe, GESMD, Valencia, Spain
19Carl Gustav Carus an der Technischen Universität, Universitätsklinikum, Dresden, Germany
20Department of Hematology, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain
21Div. Hematology, Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
22Hospital 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain
23Department of Hematology and Oncology, Elisabethinen Hospital, Linz, Austria
24Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Universitätsmedizin Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
25Hospital Universitario de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
26Department of Hematology and Oncology, Charité University Hospital, Berlin, Germany
27Hospital Parc Tauli, Sabadell, Spain
28Department of Internal Medicine V (Hematology and Oncology), Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria
29Servei de Hematologia. Hospital Vall d’Hebron, Barcelona, Spain
30Hospital de Txagorritxu, Vitoria, Spain
31Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
32Hospital Teknon, Barcelona, Spain
33Hospital Clinic de Barcelona, Spanish MDS Cooperative Group, Barcelona, Spain
34Division of Hematology, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, CA
35Hospital Universitario La Fe, Spanish MDS Cooperative Group, Valencia, Spain

11:15 AM

Geoffrey L. Uy, MD1, Eric J. Duncavage, MD2, Gue Su Chang, PhD3*, Meagan A. Jacoby, MD, PhD1, Christopher A. Miller, PhD3*, Jin Shao1*, Sharon Heath1*, Robert S. Fulton, PhD3*, Catrina C. Fronick3*, Michelle O'Laughlin3*, Camille N. Abboud, MD1, Amanda F. Cashen, MD1, John F. DiPersio, MD, PhD1, Richard K Wilson, PhD3*, Daniel C. Link, MD4, John S. Welch, MD, PhD1, Peter Westervelt, MD, PhD1, Timothy J. Ley, MD1, Timothy A. Graubert, MD5 and Matthew J. Walter, MD1

1Division of Oncology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
2Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
3McDonnell Genome Institute, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
4Division of Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
5Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

11:30 AM

Aziz Nazha, MD1, Bartlomiej Przychodzen, MSc2*, Hideki Makishima, MD, Ph.D.3, Hetty E. Carraway, MD, MBA4, Bhumika J. Patel5*, Cassandra M Hirsch6*, Michael Clemente, MS7*, Srinivasa R. Sanikommu, MBBS8, Aaron T. Gerds, MD, MS4, Jennifer S. Carew, Ph.D.5, Satoru Miyano, MD, Ph.D.9*, Matt Kalaycio, MD10, Seishi Ogawa, MD, Ph.D.3, Jaroslaw P. Maciejewski, MD, Ph.D.5 and Mikkael A. Sekeres, MD, MS4

1Leukemia Program, Department of Hematology and Oncology, Cleveland Clinic, Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland, OH
2Haematological Medicine, Department of Translational hematology and Oncology Research, Taussing Cancer Institute, Cleveland Clinic, London, United Kingdom
3Department of Pathology and Tumor Biology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
4Leukemia Program, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
5Translational Hematology and Oncology Research, Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
6Department of Translational Hematology and Oncology Research, Taussing Cancer Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
7Experimental Hematology and Hematopoiesis, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH
8Cleveland Clinic Taussing Cancer Institute, Cleveland, OH
9Human Genome Center, Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
10Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH

11:45 AM

Christopher Pleyer, MD1, Surbhi Sidana, MD2, Tomas Radivoyevitch, PhD3*, Remco Molenaar, MD4*, Andrew Godley, PhD5*, Erik Offerman6*, Anjali S. Advani, MD7, Aaron T. Gerds, MD, MS7, Hetty E. Carraway, MD, MBA7, Matt Kalaycio, MD8, Jaroslaw P. Maciejewski, MD, Ph.D.9, Mikkael A. Sekeres, MD, MS7 and Sudipto Mukherjee, MD, PhD7

1Department of Internal Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
2Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
3Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
4Department of Cell Biology & Histology, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
5Department of Radiation Oncology, Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
6Lerner College of Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
7Leukemia Program, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
8Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
9Translational Hematology and Oncology Research, Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH

*signifies non-member of ASH