Hematologic Malignancies

Experts Present Findings at Annual Conference

Hematologic Malignancies staff will present the following research at the upcoming American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting in Atlanta December 8-11, 2007.

 

  1. University of Maryland Presentations
  2. University of Maryland Collaborations
  3. University of Maryland Session Chairs

 

University of Maryland Presentations


Oral Presentations

Saturday, December 8, 2007
Time: 7:30 AM and 4:00 PM
Room: C306-C308
Presenters: Education Session: John R. Hess, M.D., Blood and Coagulation Support in Trauma

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Sunday, December 9, 2007
Time: 5:30 PM
Room: Thomas B. Murphy Ballroom I
Presenters: Jinshui Fan, Annahita Sallmyr, Kyu-Te Kim, Kamal Datta, Paul Shapiro, Donald Small, Feyruz V. Rassool. Internal tandem duplication of FLT3 induces increased ROS production, DNA damage and misrepair: Implications for genomic instability and disease resistance in myeloid malignancies.

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Monday, December 10, 2007
Time: 11:15 AM
Rooms: A411-A412
Presenters: Maria R. Baer, Stephen L. George, Ben L. Sanford, Sandra M. Bothun, Krzysztof Mrozek, Kieran L. O’Loughlin, Jonathan E. Kolitz, Joseph O. Moore, Richard M. Stone, Bayard L. Powell, Michael A. Caligiuri, Clara D. Bloomfield, Richard A. Larson. Cytarabine, daunorubicin and etoposide (ADE) chemotherapy in acute myeloid leukemia patients > 60 years (CALGB 9720).

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Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Time: 7:30 AM
Rooms: B308-B309
Presenters: Aaron P. Rapoport, Stephan A. Grupp, Edward A. Stadtmauer, Robert H. Vonderheide, Bruce L. Levine, Hongbin Fang, Kelly Yager, Anne Chew, Elizabeth Veloso, Carl H. June. Rapid T cell recovery and possible auto-GVHD following adoptive transfer of ex-vivo costimulated autologousT cells at day +2 post-transplant.

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Poster Presentations

Saturday, December 8, 2007
Poster 170-I
Room: Hall B4
Presenters: Annahita Sallmyr, Feyruz V. Rassool. Up-regulated WRN and DNA ligase III? are involved in alternative NHEJ repair pathway of DNA double strand breaks in chronic myeloid leukemia.
 
Poster 322-I
Presenters: Ashraf Badros, S. Philip, R. Niesvizky, O Goloubeva, C Harris, J Zweibel, J Wright, A Burger, S Grant, MR Baer, MJ Egorin. Phase I trial of suberoylanilide hydroxamic acid (SAHA) + bortezomib in relapsed multiple myeloma patients.

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Sunday, December 9, 2007
Poster 253-II
Room: Hall B4
Presenters: Attaphol Pawarode, Paul K Wallace, Laurie A Ford, Maurice Barcos, Maria R. Baer. Long-term outcome of cyclosporin A therapy for large granular lymphocyte leukemia.
 
Poster 570-II
Presenters: Kieran L. O’Loughlin, Hans Minderman, Laurie A. Ford, Maria R. Baer. Amonafide L-malate bypasses multidrug resistance ptoteins in secondary acute myeloid leukemia.

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Monday, December 10, 2007
Poster 738-III
Room: Hall B4
Presenters: Ashraf Badros, T Evangelos, O Goloubeva, T Meiller, E Kastritis, E Verrou, K Zervas, E Katodritou, E Streeten, MR Baer, MA Dimopoulos. Long-term follow-up of multiple myeloma patients with osteonecrosis of the jaw.

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University of Maryland Collaborations

Oral Presentations

Monday, December 10, 2007
Time: 11:15 AM
Room: Sidney J. Marcus Auditorium
Presenters: Peter Paschka, Guido Marcucci, Amy S Ruppert, Krzysztof Mrózek, Susan P Whitman, Kati Maharry, Christian Langer C, Claudia D Baldus, Bayard L Powell, Maria R. Baer, Andrew J Carroll, Michael A Caligiuri, Jonathan E Kolitz, Richard A Larson RA, Clara D Bloomfield. Wilms tumor 1 (WT1) gene mutations predict poor outcome in adults with cytogenetically normal (CN) acute myeloid leukemia (AML): A Cancer and Leukemia Group B (CALGB) study.
   
Time: 12:00 PM
Rooms: Rooms A411-A412
Presenters: Jeffrey E. Lancet, Jason Gotlib, Meir Wetzler, Selina Luger, Larry D. Cripe, Martin S. Tallman, Ivana Gojo, Deborah Mulford, Maria R. Baer, Alan F. List, Pratik S. Multani, Branimir I. Sikic. Phase I/II study of the P-glycoprotein inhibitor zosuquidar administered by continuous infusion with daunorubicin and cytarabine as primary therapy in older patients with Pgp-positive acute myeloid leukemia.

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Poster Presentations

Saturday, December 8, 2007
Poster 599-I
Room: Hall B4
Presenters: Mitch Raponi, Jeffrey E. Lancet, Hongtao Fan, Lesley Dossey, Grace Lee, Ivana Gojo, Eric J. Feldman, Jason Gotlib, Lawrence Harousseau, Bob Lowenberg, Richard M. Stone, Peter De Porre, Yixin Wang, Judith E. Karp. A two-gene classifier for predicting response to the farnesyltransferase inhibitor tipifarnib in
acute myeloid leukemia.
 
Poster 604-I
Presenters: David P Steensma, Maria R. Baer, James L Slack, Rena Buckstein, Lucy Godley, Julie S Larsen, Michael T Cullen, Hagop M Kantarjian. Preliminary results of a phase II study of decitabine administered daily for 5 days every 4 weeks to adults with myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS).
 
Poster 624-I
Presenters: Alan F List, Maria R. Baer, David P Steensma, Azra Raza, J Esposito J, J Virkus, J Feigert, E Besa E, C Paley. Deferasirox (ICL670; Exjade®) reduces serum ferritin (SF) and labile plasma iron (LPI) in patients with myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS).

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University of Maryland Session Chairs

Maria R. Baer
Sunday, December 9, 2007, 4:30-6:00 PM
Room A305
Disordered Gene Expression in Leukemia

Maria R. Baer
Monday, December 10, 2007, 11 AM-12:30 PM
Rooms A411-A412
Acute Myeloid Leukemias: Therapy, excluding Transplantation-Results of Clinical Trials

Ronald B. Gartenhaus
Monday. December 10, 2007, 11 AM-12:30 PM
Room A305
Disordered Gene Expression in Hematologic Malignancy, including Disordered Epigenetic Regulation

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