The scientific agenda for the 2009 BMT Tandem Meetings will span a broad spectrum of topics in blood and marrow transplantation, including laboratory research, clinical investigations and patient care. Major sessions are being developed to address:
Wednesday, February 11
■ Regulation of Alloresponses
Matthias Edinger, Fiona Powrie, Ronjon Chakraverty
■ Acute Leukemia
Armand Keating, Anthony Goldstone, Richard Larson
■ Late-Effects after HCT
Stephanie Lee, Linda Burns, Barry Storer, Michelle Bishop
■ Genomic and Proteomic Analysis of Hematopoietic Cell Transplant Outcome
John Hansen, Seishi Ogawa, Jason Chien, James Ferrara
■ Mortimer M. Bortin Lecture
Thursday, February 12
■ Myeloma
Morie Gertz, Irene Ghobrial, Jean-Luc Harousseau
■ CLL: Biology and Treatment – Indicators for Transplantation
John Gribben, David Maloney, Issa Khouri
■ Innate Immunity
Ernst Holler, Gabriel Nunez, Gerhard Rogler
■ WBMT Key Studies
Dietger Niederweiser, Stella Davies
■ Preventing Relapse after Transplant for Pediatric ALL – Peri-transplant, Targeted
and Cellular Therapies
Michael Pulsipher, Peter Bader, Laurence Cooper
■ Pediatric International Session
Sandeep Soni, Carmem Bonfim, Richard Kadota, Xiaojun Huang, Mammen Chandy, Arnon Nagler
■ Transplant and Immunotherapies for Pediatric Solid Tumors
Stephan Grupp, Brian Kushner, Alan Wayne
■ Treatment vs. Transplant for Challenging Hematological Disorders
John Levine, Charles Parker, Robert Brodsky
■ Controversies of and Unique Issues in BMT Infant Leukemia
Kirk Schultz, Mignon Loh, Steve Hunger, Scott Baker
■ Wiskott Aldrich Syndrome
Neena Kapoor, Morton Cowan, Hans Ochs, Alexandra Filipovich, Paul Veys
Friday, February 13
■ Regenerative Medicine
George Daley, Ira Fox, Viviane Tabar
■ B Cells and Transplantation
David Miklos, Trudy Small, William Robinson
■ Myeloproliferative Neoplasms: Anti-BCR-ABL and Anti-JAK2 Drug Therapy
Ayalew Tefferi, Hagop Kantarjian, Ross Levine
■ Clinical Trials
Brent Logan, Nancy Geller, Gisela Tunes da Silva
■ Best Abstracts
Saturday, February 14
■ The Burden of Bacterial and Viral Infections in BMT
Dimitrios Kontoyiannis, Russell Lewis, Kieren Marr
■ Inflammation
Pavan Reddy, Kenneth Rock, Charles Dinarello, Geoff Hill
■ Vulnerable Transplant Patients
Amrita Krishnan, Sergio Giralt, Mohammed Sorror
■ Optimizing Cord Blood Transplantation
Juliet Barker, Vanderson Rocha, Andromachi Scaradavou
■ E. Donnell Thomas Lecture
Sunday, February 15
■ GVHD: Biology and New Therapy
Daniel Weisdorf, Pavan Reddy, Mukta Arora, Crystal Mackall
■ Late Breaking “Hot Topics”
James Ferrara, Mark Litzow