Hematology in Focus sessions Sunday June 18

HEMATOLOGY-IN-FOCUS SESSION

09.30 - 10.15 hours, Auditorium

MYELOPROLIFERATIVE DISORDERS
Chair: W. Vainchenker (Institut Gustave Roussy, Paris, France)

• ABNORMAL SIGNALING AND ROUTING OF EPO-R AND MPL CAUSED BY MUTANT JAK2
  S. Constantinescu (Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research and Christian de Duve Institute of Cellular Pathology, Brussels, Belgium)
• FUNCTIONAL AND CLINICAL IMPACT OF THE JAK2 MUTATION
  R. Skoda (University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland)

HEMATOLOGY-IN-FOCUS SESSION

09.30 - 10.15 hours, Forum

TREATMENT STRATEGIES IN FOLLICULAR LYMPHOMA
Chair: R. Marcus (Addenbrookes Hospital Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom)

• FIRST-LINE TREATMENT OF FOLLICULAR LYMPHOMA
  R. Marcus (Addenbrookes Hospital Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom)
• SHOULD PATIENTS RECEIVE MAINTENANCE THERAPY WITH RITUXIMAB?
  M. Ghielmini (Oncology Institute of Southern Switzerland, Bellinzona, Switzerland)

HEMATOLOGY-IN-FOCUS SESSION

09.30 - 10.15 hours, Room X

CORD BLOOD HSC TRANSPLANTATION
Chair: E. Gluckman (Hôpital Saint-Louis, Paris, France)

• DOUBLE CORD BLOOD TRANSPLANTATION
  J.E. Wagner (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA)
• ADULT CORD BLOOD TRANSPLANTATION
  W. Arcese (University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Rome, Italy)

HEMATOLOGY-IN-FOCUS SESSION

09.30 - 10.15 hours, Room Y

ROLE OF EVI1 IN LEUKEMOGENESIS
Chair: S. Raynaud (University Hospital Nice, Nice, France)

• EVI1 - SITE OF RETROVIRAL INSERTION
  Ch. Baum (Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany)
• EVI1 IN THE PATHOGENESIS OF MDS AND AML
  R. Delwel (Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands)

HEMATOLOGY-IN-FOCUS SESSION

09.30 - 10.15 hours, Room A

DEVELOPMENTS IN TRANSFUSION MEDICINE
Chair: P. Rebulla (O.U. Center of Transfusion Medicine, Milan, Italy)

• BIOLOGY AND TRANSMISSION OF PRION DISEASES
  J.W. Ironside (University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
• NEW APPROACHES TO PLATELET TRANSFUSIONS
  L.M. Williamson (University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom)

HEMATOLOGY-IN-FOCUS SESSION

09.30 - 10.15 hours, Room B

EXTRINSIC CONTROL OF STEM CELL FATE
Chair: W.E. Fibbe (Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands)

• STEM CELL SELF RENEWAL AND THE BONE MARROW NICHE
  T. Suda (Keio University, School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan)
• CYTOKINE REGULATION OF HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL FATE
  S.E.W. Jacobsen (Lund University, Lund, Sweden)