UK MDS Forum Education Day Friday 17th October 2014 Hallam Conference Centre, 44 Hallam Street, London W1W 6JJ 10.00 Registration and Coffee Chair: Professor Ghulam Mufti 10.30 Welcome & introduction Professor Ghulam Mufti King’s College London 10.40 Terry Hamblin Memorial Lecture: MDS stem cell Dr Petter Woll Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Oxford 11.20 11.40 12.00 12.20 12.40 Novel Therapies in Development from Pharmaceutical Collaborators Celgene Dr Han Myint Novartis Dr Andrew Danquah Onconova Dr Hannes Loferer GSK Dr Paresh Sewpaul Discussion All 13.00 Lunch Chair: Professor David Bowen 13.45 MDS: Mutational landscape in clinical practice Dr Nicholas Lea King’s College Hospital, London 14.05 Hypoplastic MDS: A distinct entity? Dr Hadil Abuarqoub King’s College Hospital, London 14.25 Isolated monosomy 7/del7q Dr Austin Kulasekararaj King’s College Hospital, London 14.40 5q- : What is new? Dr Andrea Pellagatti LLR Institute of Molecular Haematology, Oxford 15.00 CMML diagnostic criteria & genetics 15.20 Tea 15.45 Annual General Meeting/Treasurer’s report Professor David Bowen St James’ Institute of Oncology, Leeds Dr Jonathan Kell University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff 15.55 David Hall Memorial Lecture Kes Grant MDS UK Patient Support Group 16.15 Interesting cases Dr Sally Killick & Dr Emma Das-Gupta Royal Bournemouth Hospital & Nottingham University Hospital 16.55 Closing remarks Registration Fee: £100.00 Online registration is now available at www.hartleytaylor.co.uk For further information please email: [email protected] or telephone 01565 621697 / 07900 634948 This meeting is sponsored by Celgene, who have provided sponsorship to contribute to the costs but have had no input into or influence over the agenda Further sponsorship applications are pending.