Final program

Friday 13-11-2009 (9:00–19:00)

9:00 Welcome Coffee, Registration

9:20 Ewa Jassem and Peter Valent Welcome and Opening

SESSION I: Update of Networking in Europe and in the US

9:30–11:00 Chair: Peter Valent, Dean D. Metcalfe

9:30 Peter Valent ECNM: Current Status and Plan for the Next Decade

9:45 Wolfgang R. Sperr The ECNM Registry

10:00 Karin Hartmann Mastocytosis ECNM ID Card for Patients in Europe

10:15 Boguslaw Nedoszytko, Jaroslaw Skokowski Cell Banking, DNA Banking, and Serum Banking in the ECNM

10:30 Marek Niedoszytko The Polish Network on Mastocytosis and Presentation of the Gdansk ECNM Center of Excellence

10:45 Coffee Break

11:15 Ulrich Blank & Stephan Bischoff & Gunnar Nilsson Mast Cells: Basic Science Networking in Europe and Applications to the EU

11:30 Peter Valent & Knut Brockow EU Calls and Possibilities for Application of ECNM partners

11:45 General Discussion

12:15 Lunch

SESSION II: New Diagnostic and Prognostic Parameters

13:15–15:00 Chair: Boguslaw Nedoszytko, Karl Sotlar

13.15. Dean D. Metcalfe Critical Signaling Nodes in Mast Cell Proliferation and Activation

13:30 Jasper van Doormaal Do biochemical markers predict Systemic Involvement in Mastocytosis?

13:45 Boguslaw Nedoszytko Genomic Background Factors Predicting Systemic Involvement in Mastocytosis

14:00 Hans-Peter Horny Extramedullary Involvement in Mastocytosis

14:15 Luis Escribano, Ivan Alarez-Twose New Prognostic Markers in SM: The REMA Data

14:30 Dean D. Metcalfe, Todd Wilson KIT Isoforms in Haematologic Disorders

14:45 Karoline V. Gleixner KIT-independent Pathways and Targets in SM

15:00 Coffee Break

SESSION III: Treatment of Mediator Symptoms in Mastocytosis

15:30–16.30 Chair: C. Akin, E. Jassem

15:30 Joanne Oude Elberink, Marek Niedoszytko Insect Venom Immunotherapy in Mastocytosis

15:45 Magdalena Lange, Joanna Renke Clinical Aspects of Pediatric Mastocytosis

16:00 Massimo Triggiani Mastocytosis and Pregnancy

16:15 Ewa Jassem Pretreatment before Surgery in Patients with Mastocytosis

16:30 Coffee Break

SESSION IV: Treatment of ASM and MCL

16.45–19:00 Chair: Andrzej Hellmann, Hanneke Kluin-Nelemans

16.45 Jason Gotlib Effects of Midostaurin in ASM, MCL, and SM-AHNMD

17:00 Emir Hadzijusufovic Effects of Histamine Receptor Antagonists on Mast Cells

17:15 Cem Akin New TKI and other Drugs: Update and Hope for the Future

17:30 Peter Valent & Dean D. Metcalfe Discussion on Drug Safety and Patient Selection for Clinical Trials

17.45. Judit Varkonyi Case Presentation: SM with Signs of Myeloproliferation, MGUS, and Recurrent Hydrothorax controlled by IFN

18:00 Coffee break

SESSION V: Short Communications of Unpublished Key Observations (5 minutes + 5 minutes discussion time)

18:15-19:00 Chair: Michał Woźniak, Hans-Peter Horny

18:15 Hans-Peter Horny MCL-CML or CML-MCL or a Typographical Error

18:25 Anders Jönsson Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Type 1 in a Patient with Systemic Mastocytosis

18:35 Bartosz Wasag A novel Germline Mutation (p.N822I) in KIT Associated with Cutaneous Mastocytosis

18:45 Andrzej Mital, Andrzej Hellmann A case of aggressive systemic mastocytosis (ASM) with exon 9 KIT mutation and good response to imatinib

18:55 Hans-Peter Horny Histopathology of Mastocytosis involving the Gastrointestinal Tract: Diagnostic Criteria

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SESSION VI: Skin involvement in Mastocytosis

9:00–10.30 Chair: Knut Brockow, Karin Hartmann

9:00 Andrzej Słomiński, Michał A. Żmijewski Neuroendocrinology of the Skin and Relationship to Mast Cells

9:15 Karin Hartmann Standards in Therapy of Cutaneous Mastocytosis

9:30 Knut Brockow Scoring of Skin-Related Symptoms and Evaluation of Treatment Responses

9:45 Markus Maurer Miltefosine in Cutaneus Mastocytosis

10:00 Coffee Break

SESSION VII: Molecular Biology and KIT mutations

10:30-11:30 Chair: Michel Arock, Marek Niedoszytko

10:30 Michał Woźniak Impact of redox signalling in mast cell contribution to inflammatory arthritis.

10:45 Karl Sotlar KIT Mutations and Other Molecular Defects in SM

11:00 Gunnar Nilsson Regulation of Survival and Apoptosis in normal and Neoplastic Human Mast Cells

11:15 Barbara Peter & Peter Valent Effects of Obatoclax on Neoplastic Mast Cells

11:30 Coffee Break

SESSION VIII: Novel Concepts about Mast Cells

12:00-13:30 Chair: Dean D. Metcalfe, Peter Valent

12:00 Tracy George Myelomastocytic Leukemia versus Mast Cell Leukemia versus SM-AML: A Diagnostic Challenge

12:15 Cem Akin Clinical and Laboratory Signs and Features of Mast Cell Activation

12:30 Andreas Reiter c-KIT Allele Burden in Patients with Systemic Mastocytosis

12:45 Marek Niedoszytko Gene Expression Analysis in Mastocytosis

13:00 Hans-Peter Horny Expression of CD30 in Neoplastic Mast Cells in Systemic Mastocytosis

13:15 Sabine Cerny-Reiterer, Peter Valent STAT5 Expression and Activation in Systemic Mastocytosis

13:30 Ewa Jassem and Peter Valent Closing Remarks

13:45 General Discussion

14:00 End of the Meeting