Esther Natalie Oliva, MD¹, Valeria Santini, MD², Caterina Alati, MD^1*, Antonella Poloni, MD^3*, Alfredo Molteni, MD^4*, Pasquale Niscola, MD^5*, Grazia Sanpaolo, MD^6*, Flavia Salvi, MD^7*, Giuseppe A. Palumbo, MD^8*, Enrico Balleari, MD^9*, Stefana Impera, MD^10*, Agostino Cortelezzi, MD¹¹, Anna Marina Liberati, MD^12*, Paolo Avanzini, MD^13*, Paolo Di Bartolomeo, MD¹⁴, Christian Rose¹⁵, Odile Beyne-Rauzy, MD, PhD^16*, Francesco Buccisano, MD,¹⁷, Monica Bocchia, MD^18*, Fortunato Morabito, MD^19*, Aspasia Stamatoullas, MD^20*, Francesca Ronco^1*, Gina Zini, MD, Prof.²¹, Maria Grazia D'Errigo^22*, Natale Ranieri, MD^1*, Patrizia Cufari^1*, Irene Santacaterina, MD^1*, Pierre Fenaux, MD, PhD²³ and Roberto Latagliata, MD^24*

¹Hematology, Azienda Ospedaliera Bianchi-Melacrino-Morelli, Reggio Calabria, Italy
²AOU Careggi, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
³Haematology Clinic, Ospedali Riuniti di Ancona, Ancona, Italy
⁴Ospedale Niguarda, Milano, Italy
⁵Department of Hematology, “S. Eugenio Hospital”, Rome, Italy
⁶Hematology, Istituto Casa del Sollievo della Sofferenza, San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy
⁷Hematology, “SS Antonio e Biagio” Hospital, Alessandria, Italy
⁸Division of Hematology, Ospedale Ferrarotto, University of Catania, Catania, Italy
⁹Genova Hospital, Genova, Italy
¹⁰Section of Hematology, A.R.N.A.S. Garibaldi Nesima, Catania, Italy
¹¹Oncohematology Unit, University of Milan, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy
¹²SC Oncoematologia, Azienda Ospedaliera S. Maria, Terni, Italy
¹³Hematology, S.Maria Nuova Hospital, Reggio Emilia, Italy
¹⁴Dipartimento Ematologia, Ospedale Civile Santo Spirito, Pescara, Italy
¹⁵Dept. of Hematology, Hopital St. Vincent, Lille, France
¹⁶Service de medecine Interne, CHU Purpan, Toulouse, France
¹⁷Hematology, University Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
¹⁸Department of Hematology and Transplants, University of Siena, Siena, Italy
¹⁹Section of Hematology, A.O. L'Annunziata of Cosenza, Cosenza, Italy
²⁰Clinical Hematology, CENTRE HENRI BECQUEREL, Rouen, France
²¹Centro di Ricerca ReCAMH, Hematology, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy
²²Genetics Laboratory, Azienda Ospedaliera Bianchi-Melacrino-Morelli, Reggio Calabria, Italy
²³Service d'Hématologie Séniors, Hôpital Saint-Louis, Université Paris 7, Paris, France
²⁴Division of Hematology-Dept. of Cellular Biotechnologies and Hematology, University La Sapienza of Rome, Rome, Italy

Aristoteles Giagounidis, MD, PhD¹, Uwe Platzbecker, MD², Ulrich Germing, MD^3*, Katharina Götze, MD^4*, Philipp Kiewe, MD^5*, Karin Tina Mayer, MD^6*, Oliver Ottmann, MD⁷, Markus Radsak, MD^8*, Thomas Wolff, MD⁹, Detlef Haase, MD^10*, Monty Hankin^11*, Dawn Wilson^11*, Xiaosha Zhang^11*, Adberrahmane Laadem, MD¹², Matthew L. Sherman, MD¹¹ and Kenneth M. Attie, MD¹¹

¹Marien Hospital Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
²Carl Gustav Carus an der Technischen Universität, Universitätsklinikum, Dresden, Germany
³Universitätsklinikum Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
⁴Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
⁵Onkologischer Schwerpunkt am Oskar-Helene-Heim, Berlin, Germany
⁶Department of Internal Medicine III, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany
⁷Universitätsklinikum Frankfurt, Goethe Universitaet, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
⁸University Medical Center - Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz, Germany
⁹OncoResearch Lerchenfeld UG, Hamburg, Germany
¹⁰Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Universitätsmedizin Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
¹¹Acceleron Pharma, Cambridge, MA
¹²Celgene Corporation, Summit, NJ

Gautam Borthakur, MD¹, James M. Foran, MD², Eunice S. Wang, MD³, Amol Rakkar^4*, Hans Minderman^5*, Jennifer Burns^6*, Michael Andreeff, MD, PhD¹ and Raoul Tibes, MD, PhD⁷

¹Department of Leukemia, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
²Mayo Clinic Cancer Center, Jacksonville, FL
³Department of Medicine, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY
⁴Palo Verde Hematology-Oncology, Ltd., Glendale, AZ
⁵Flow and Image Cytometry, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY
⁶TetraLogic Pharmaceuticals, Malvern, PA
⁷Hematology Oncology/ Blood and Marrow Transplant, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Phoenix, AZ

Nicholas J. Short, MD¹, Guillermo Garcia-Manero, MD¹, Guillermo Montalban Bravo, MD^1*, Koji Sasaki, MD¹, Mikkael A. Sekeres, MD, MS², Rami S. Komrokji, MD³, David P. Steensma, MD⁴, Amy E. DeZern, MD, MHS⁵, Gail J Roboz, MD⁶, Tapan Kadia, MD¹, Gautam Borthakur, MD¹, Courtney DiNardo, MD¹, Darla Miller^1*, Zeev Estrov, MD¹, Naveen Pemmaraju, MD¹, Naval Daver, MD¹, Srdan Verstovsek, MD, PhD¹, Hagop M. Kantarjian, MD¹ and Elias Jabbour¹

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

Thomas Prebet, MD¹, Thomas Cluzeau, MD, PhD^2*, Sophie Park, MD, PhD³, Ulrich Germing, MD^4*, Lionel Ades, MD, PhD^5,6, Uwe Platzbecker, MD⁷, Norbert Vey⁸, Katharina Goetze, MD^9*, Charikleia Kelaidi, MD^10,11*, Esther Natalie Oliva¹², Najla H. Al Ali, BDS, MSc^13*, Pierre Fenaux, MD, PhD^14,15, Steven D. Gore, MD¹⁶ and Rami S. Komrokji, MD¹³

¹Dept of Internal Medicine, Section of Hematology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
²H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL
³CHU de Grenoble, Clinique Universitaire d’Hématologie, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble Cedex 9, France
⁴Department of Hematology, Oncology, and Clinical Immunology, Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf, Duesseldorf, Germany
⁵Service d’Hématologie Séniors, St Louis hospital, University Paris 7, Paris, France
⁶GFM, Hôpital Saint Louis, Paris, France
⁷Medizinische Klinik und Poliklinik I, Universitätsklinikum Carl Gustav Carus, Dresden, Germany
⁸Hematology, Institut Paoli-Calmettes, Marseille, France
⁹Technische Universität München, München, Germany
¹⁰hôpital saint louis, groupe francophone des myelodysplasies, Paris, France
¹¹Hopital Avicenne -Paris 13 University, Bobigny, France
¹²A.O. Bianchi-Melacrino-Morelli, Hematology, Reggio Calabria, Italy
¹³Malignant Hematology Department, H Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, Tampa, FL
¹⁴Service d'Hématologie Séniors, Hôpital Saint-Louis, Université Paris 7, Paris, France
¹⁵Groupe Francais des myélodysplasies (GFM), Paris, France
¹⁶Yale Cancer Center, New Haven, CT

Cindy Medina, B.S.^1*, Leylah Drusbosky, BS^1*, Myron Chang, PhD^2*, Shireen Vali^3*, Ansu Kumar^4*, Neeraj Kumar Singh^4*, Taher Abbasi^3*, Mikkael A. Sekeres, MD, MS⁵, Mar Mallo, PhD^6*, Francesc Sole, PhD⁶, Rafael Bejar, MD, PhD⁷ and Christopher R. Cogle, M.D.¹

¹Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
²Department of Biostatistics, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
³Cellworks Group Inc., 2033 Gateway Place Suite 500, San Jose, CA
⁴Cellworks Group, Inc., San Jose, CA
⁵Leukemia Program, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
⁶MDS Research Group, Institut de Recerca Contra la Leucèmia Josep Carreras, ICO-Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Badalona, Spain
⁷UCSD Moores Cancer Center, La Jolla, CA