Meeting program

CLINICAL AND LABORATORY CASES IN RED CELL DISORDERS AND COAGULATION

Chair: Irene Roberts

  • Mariane de Montalembert: Difficult management problems in sickle cell disease
  • John Grainger: Childhood immune thrombocytopenia
  • Ri Liesner: Coagulation and thrombosis cases

BONE MARROW FAILURE AND IMMUNODEFICIENCY

Chair: Arndt Borkhardt

  • Thierry Leblanc: Congenital thrombocytopenias
  • Cornelia Zeidler: Congenital neutropenias
  • Thierry Leblanc: Molecular basis and diagnosis of Fanconi anemia
  • Arndt Borkhardt: Diagnostic and clinical problems of congenital immunodeficiencies

LEUKEMIA: ALL      

Chair: Andrea Biondi & André Baruchel

  • Shai Izraeli: Molecular pathogenesis of childhood ALL
  • Andrea Biondi: Infant leukemia
  • André Baruchel: Difficult management questions

LEUKEMIA: AML and MDS

Chair: Andrea Biondi & André Baruchel

  • Juerg Schwaller: Molecular pathogenesis of AML
  • Charlotte Niemeyer: MDS/JMML diagnosis and treatment
  • Brenda Gibson: Clinical management problems in AML
  • Kjeld Schmiegelow: Long-term effects

HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION         

Chair: Arndt Borkhardt  

  • Adriana Balduzzi: Everything you wanted to know about transplantation in pediatric ALL ... (but never dared to ask)
  • Josu de la Fuente: HSCT for non-malignant disorders
  • Andrea Biondi: Cell and immune therapy in HSCT 

RED CELL DISORDERS and NEONATAL HEMATOLOGY

Chair: Irene Roberts

  • Maria Domenica Cappellini: Management of iron overload in multi-transfused children
  • Achille Iolascon: Red cell membrane defects: new diagnostic techniques
  • Irene Roberts: Neonatal hematology

EVENING LECTURES: TOPICS

  • Therapy resistance and cell death induction
  • Gene therapy
  • Bone marrow failure syndromes