Antonio Sacco, MSc1*, Vanessa Desantis, PhD2*, Jon Celay, PhD3*, Viviana Giustini, MSc4*, Fabio Rigali, MSc1*, Francesco Savino, MD1*, Michele Cea5*, Debora Soncini6*, Antonia Cagnetta, MD5*, Antonio Giovanni Solimando, MD, PhD7*, Deborah D'Aliberti, PhD8*, Silvia Spinelli, MSc8*, Daniele Ramazzotti, PhD8*, Camillo Almici, MD9*, Katia Todoerti, PhD10*, Antonino Neri, MD11*, Antonella Anastasia, MD12*, Alessandra Tucci, MD12, Marina Motta, MD12*, Marco Chiarini, PhD13*, Yawara Kawano, MD, PhD14, Jose A Martinez-Climent, MD PhD3, Rocco Piazza, MD, PhD8* and Aldo Roccaro, MD, PhD1
1Clinical Trial Center, Translational Research and Phase I Unit, ASST Spedali Civili di Brescia, Brescia, Italy
2Department of Biomedical Sciences and Human Oncology (DIMO), Pharmacology Section, University of Bari Medical School, Bari, AL, ITA
3Hematology and Oncology Program, Centre for Applied Medical Research (CIMA), Instituto de Investigaciones Sanitarias de Navarra (IdiSNA), Cancer Center Clinica Universidad de Navarra (CCUN), Pamplona, Navarra, Spain
4Clinical Chemistry Laboratory, Flow Cytometry Section Asst Spedali Civili di Brescia, Brescia, ITA
5Clinic of Hematology, Department of Internal Medicine (DiMI), IRCCS Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, Genova, Italy
6Clinic of Hematology, Department of Internal Medicine and Medical Specialties (DiMI), University of Genoa, Genova, Italy
7Guido Baccelli Unit of Internal Medicine, Department of Biomedical Sciences and Human Oncology, University of Bari, Bari, Italy
8Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milano-Bicocca, Monza, Italy
9Laboratory for Stem Cells Manipulation and Cryopreservation, Department of Transfusion Medicine, ASST Spedali Civili of Brescia, Brescia, Italy
10Department of Oncology and Hemato-Oncology, Hematology, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milano, MI, ITA
11Azienda USL-IRCCS di Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia, Italy
12Hematology, ASST Spedali Civili, Brescia, Italy
13Clinical Chemistry Laboratory, Flow Cytometry Section, ASST Spedali Civili di Brescia, Brescia, ITA
14Dept of Hematology, Kumamoto University Hospital, Kumamoto, Japan