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651A.O3.6 651. Myeloma: Biology and Pathophysiology, excluding Therapy: Sensitivity and Resistance Mechanisms

Myeloma: Biology and Pathophysiology, excluding Therapy Program: Oral and Poster Abstracts
Type: Oral
Monday, December 7, 2015: 7:00 AM-8:30 AM
W224ABEF, Level 2 (Orange County Convention Center)
Moderators:
Masood A Shammas, PhD, VA Boston Healthcare System and Babatunde O. Oyajobi, MBBS, PhD, MBA, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

Disclosures:
No relevant conflicts of interest to declare.
7:00 AM

Xenofon Papanikolaou, MD*, Caleb K. Stein, MS*, Ricky D Edmondson, Ph.D.*, Veronica Macleod*, Ruslana Tytarenko*, Bart Barlogie, MD, PhD, Joshua Epstein, DSc and Christoph Heuck, MD

Myeloma Institute, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR

7:15 AM

Xiangao Huang, PhD1,2*, David Jayabalan, BSMS, MSc1,3*, Maurizio Di Liberto, PhD1,2, Zhengming Chen, PhD4*, Anna C Schinzel, PhD5*, Scott Ely, MD, MPH1,2, Adriana C Rossi, MD, MHS3, Roger N Pearse, MD, PhD3*, Ekta Aneja, MBBS1*, Morton Coleman, MD3*, Joseph M Lane, MD6*, William C. Hahn, MD, PhD5*, Tomer M Mark, MD, MSc3, Ruben Niesvizky, MD3 and Selina Chen-Kiang, PhD1,2,7

1Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY
2Meyer Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY
3Center of Excellence for Lymphoma and Myeloma, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY
4Department of Public Health, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY
5The Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Boston, MA
6Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY
7Graduate Program in Immunology and Microbial Pathogenesis, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY

7:30 AM

Kenneth H. Shain, MD, PhD1, Ariosto Silva, Ph.D.2*, Mark B Meads, PhD3*, Allison Distler, B.S.3*, Timothy Jacobson, B.S.4*, Robert Gatenby, M.D., Ph.D.2*, Rachid Baz1, Maria Silva, M.Sc5*, Dmitri Rebatchouk, Ph.D.6* and Chris Cubitt, Ph.D.5*

1Department of Malignant Hematology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL
2Intergrated Mathematical Oncology, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL
3Malignant Hematology, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL
4Intergrated Mathematic Oncology, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL
5Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL
6nPharmakon, Piscataway, NJ

7:45 AM

Yawara Kawano, MD, PhD1*, Michele Moschetta, MD1*, Katsutoshi Kokubun, PhD1*, Pavlo Lukyanchykov, MD2*, Esilida Sula Karreci, MD2*, Salomon Manier, MD1, Shokichi Tsukamoto, MD, PhD1, Satoshi Takagi, PhD1, Jiantao Shi3*, Michaela R. Reagan, PhD4, Daisy Huynh, BS, MS1*, Antonio Sacco, BS1*, David M. Dorfman, MD, PhD5, Marta Chesi, PhD6, Peter Leif Bergsagel, MD, PhD7, Aldo M Roccaro, MD, PhD1, Jamil Azzi, MD2* and Irene M. Ghobrial, MD8

1Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
2Transplantation Research Center, Renal Division, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
3Biostatistics, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
4Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
5Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
6Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ
7Comprehensive Cancer Center, Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ
8Harvard Medical School, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA

8:00 AM

Megan Murnane, M.Sc.1*, Eugen Dhimolea, PhD2*, Ruojing Li, BS3*, Megan A. Bariteau, BSc2*, Diamond D. Wheeler, BS4*, Rosemary J. Akhurst, PhD5*, Aaron C. Logan, MD, PhD6, Pamela Munster, M.D.7*, Arun Wiita, MD, PhD4*, Thomas G. Martin III, MD1, Jeffrey L. Wolf, MD, PhD6, Jun O. Liu, PhD3*, Constantine S. Mitsiades, MD, PhD8 and Blake T. Aftab, PhD9

1Department of Medicine, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
2Dept. of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
3Department of Pharmacology & Molecular Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
4Department of Laboratory Medicine, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
5Department of Anatomy, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
6University of California San Francisco, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, San Francisco, CA
7Department of Medicine, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
8Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
9Dept. of Medicine, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

8:15 AM

Annamaria Gulla, MD1,2*, Mehmet Kemal Samur, PhD3*, Mariateresa Fulciniti, PhD4*, Masood A Shammas, PhD5,6, Teru Hideshima, M.D., Ph.D.4, Pierosandro Tagliaferri, MD2*, Giovanni Parmigiani, PhD3*, Pierfrancesco Tassone, MD2*, Kenneth C Anderson, MD5 and Nikhil C. Munshi, MD6,7

1Jerome Lipper Multiple Myeloma Disease Center, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
2Salvatore Venuta Campus, Magna Graecia University, Catanzaro, Italy
3Biostatistics and Computational Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
4Jerome Lipper Multiple Myeloma Disease Center, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
5The Jerome Lipper Multiple Myeloma Center, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
6VA Boston Healthcare System, West Roxbury, MA
7Jerome Lipper Multiple Myeloma Center, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA

*signifies non-member of ASH