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112.O1.6 112. Thalassemia and Globin Gene Regulation Clinically Relevant Abstract

Program: Oral and Poster Abstracts
Type: Oral
Hematology Disease Topics & Pathways:
Anemias, Biological, sickle cell disease, Diseases, thalassemia, Therapies, Pediatric, red blood cells, Biological Processes, Hemoglobinopathies, gene therapy, Cell Lineage, erythropoiesis, Study Population, hematopoiesis, transplantation, stem cells, microenvironment
Saturday, December 5, 2020: 12:00 PM-1:30 PM
Moderators:
Ann Dean, PhD, National Institutes of Health and Noemi Roy, MBBCH, MD, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Disclosures:
No relevant conflicts of interest to declare.
12:00 PM

Janet L. Kwiatkowski, MD, MSCE1,2, Mark C. Walters, MD3, Suradej Hongeng, MD4, Franco Locatelli, MD, PhD5, John E.J. Rasko, BSc, MBBS, PhD6,7,8*, Marina Cavazzana, MD, PhD9,10,11, Ying Chen, PhD12*, Richard A. Colvin, MD, PhD12* and Alexis A. Thompson, MD13,14

1Division of Hematology, Children's Hospital of Philadephia, Philadelphia, PA
2Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
3UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland, Oakland, CA
4Mahidol University, Ramathibodi Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand
5Department of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, IRCCS Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Gesù, Rome, Italy
6Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, Australia
7Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
8Gene and Stem Cell Therapy Program, Centenary Institute, Camperdown, Australia
9Necker Children’s Hospital, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France
10IMAGINE Institute, Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France
11Biotherapy Clinical Investigation Center, Groupe Hospitalier Universitaire Ouest, Paris, France
12bluebird bio, Inc., Cambridge, MA
13Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, IL
14Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL

12:15 PM

Alexis A. Thompson, MD1,2, Janet L. Kwiatkowski, MD, MSCE3,4, John B. Porter, MA, M.D., FRCP, FRCPath5*, Suradej Hongeng, MD6, Evangelia Yannaki, MD7*, Andreas E. Kulozik, MD, PhD8,9*, Martin G. Sauer, MD10, Adrian J. Thrasher, MBBS, PhD, FMedSci11*, Isabelle Thuret, MD12*, Ashutosh Lal, MD13, Ruiting Guo, MS14*, Weijian Liu, PhD14*, Richard A. Colvin, MD, PhD14*, Mark C. Walters, MD13 and Franco Locatelli, MD, PhD15

1Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2Department of Pediatrics, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL
3Division of Hematology, Children's Hospital of Philadephia, Philadelphia, PA
4Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
5Haematology Department, University College London Hospitals, London, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
6Mahidol University, Ramathibodi Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand
7Hematology Department and HCT Unit, George Papanikolaou General Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece
8Department of Pediatric Oncology, Hematology, and Immunology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
9Molecular Medicine Partnership Unit (MMPU), European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
10Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Hannover, Germany
11UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London, United Kingdom
12Pediatric Hematology, Hôpital de la Timone, Marseille, France
13UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland, Oakland, CA
14bluebird bio, Inc., Cambridge, MA
15Department of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Cell and Gene Therapy, IRCCS Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital, Rome, Italy

12:30 PM

Kunhua Qin1*, Peng Huang, PhD1*, Anran Huang, BS1*, Ruopeng Feng, PhD2, Thiyagaraj Mayuranathan3*, Cheryl A. Keller, PhD4*, Belinda Giardine4*, Ross C. Hardison, Ph.D.5*, Mitchell J. Weiss, MD, PhD3, Junwei Shi, PhD6* and Gerd A. Blobel, MD, PhD1

1Division of Hematology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
2Department of Hematology, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN
3Department of Hematology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN
4Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Center for Computational Biology & Bioinformatics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
5Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Centers for Eukaryotic Gene Regulation and for Computational Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
6Department of Cancer Biology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

12:45 PM

Xianjiang Lan, PhD1*, Ren Ren, PhD2*, Ruopeng Feng, PhD3, Lana C Ly4*, Yemin Lan, PhD5*, Zhe Zhang, PhD6*, Nicholas Aboreden5*, Kunhua Qin1*, John R Horton2*, Jeremy D. Grevet, PhD7*, Thiyagaraj Mayuranathan8*, Osheiza Abdulmalik, DVM9, Cheryl A. Keller, PhD10*, Belinda Giardine11*, Ross C. Hardison, Ph.D.12*, Merlin Crossley, PhD4*, Mitchell J. Weiss, MD, PhD8, Xiaodong Cheng, PhD2*, Junwei Shi, PhD13* and Gerd A. Blobel, MD, PhD1,5

1Division of Hematology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
2University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston
3Department of Hematology, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN
4University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
5University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
6Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
7Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
8Department of Hematology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN
9Division of Hematology, Children's Hosp. of Phila., Philadelphia, PA
10Pennsylvania State University, University Park
11Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Center for Computational Biology & Bioinformatics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
12Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Centers for Eukaryotic Gene Regulation and for Computational Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
13Department of Cancer Biology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

1:00 PM

Divya S Vinjamur, PhD1*, Qiuming Yao, PhD2*, Mitchel A. Cole, BS3*, Connor McGuckin4*, Chunyan Ren, PhD2*, Jing Zeng, MD2*, Mir Hossain, PhD1*, Luca Pinello, PhD5* and Daniel E Bauer, MD, PhD6

1Division of Hematology and Oncology, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
2Division of Hematology and Oncology, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
3Division of Hematology and Oncology, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA
4Division of Hematology and Oncology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA
5Molecular Pathology Unit and Center for Cancer Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA
6Division of Hematology and Oncology, Boston Children's Hospital / Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA

1:15 PM

Annamaria Aprile, PhD1, Laura Raggi1*, Mariangela Storto1*, Isabella Villa, PhD2*, Sarah Marktel, MD3*, Irene Motta, MD4,5*, Maria Domenica Cappellini6,7, Alessandro Rubinacci, MD2* and Giuliana Ferrari, PhD8,9

1San Raffaele-Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy (SR-TIGET), IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy
2Bone Metabolism Unit, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy
3Haematology and BMT Unit, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy
4Department of Internal Medicine, UOC Medicina Generale, Foundation IRCCS Ca' Granda, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy
5University of Milan, Milan, Italy
6Department of Clinical Sciences and Community Health, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
7Foundation IRCCS Ca' Granda Policlinico Milano, Milan, Italy
8San Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy (SR-TIGET), IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy
9Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy

*signifies non-member of ASH