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Contact Persons in Project 10: Diagnostics

Created by: Hellenbrecht (ELIC) , generated 2006/03/14, last changed: 2008/06/04

Name	Initials	E-mail	Clinic	Country
Lead Participants
M.C. Béné *	BEN		Université Henri Poincaré	France
W. Gassmann	GAS		St. Marien-Krankenhaus Siegen gem. GmbH	Germany
Gina Zini *	GZ		Catholic Univ. of Sacred Heart	Italy
Participants
G. Basso	BASS			Italy
G. Castoldi	CAS			Italy
J. Cermak	CER			Czech Republic
M.T. Daniel *	DAN		Association Publique-Hopitaux de Paris	France
G. Flandrin	FLAN			France
R. Fuchs	FUC		St. Antonius Hospital	Germany
T. Haferlach	HAF			Germany
J. Hastka	HAS			Germany
H.A. Horst	HORS			Germany
W. Kern	KER			Germany
H. Link	LIN		Westpfalz-Klinikum GmbH	Germany
W.D. Ludwig	LUD		Charité Universitätsmedizin, Robert-Rössle-Klinik	Germany
E. Matutes *	MAT		Royal Marsden Hospital	UK
T. Nebe	NEB			Germany
U. Oelschlägel *	OEL			Germany
A. Orfao	ORF		Universidad de Salamanca	Spain
W. Pickl	PIC			Austria
A. Porwit-MacDonald *	POR		Karolinska Institutet	Sweden
R. Schabath	SCHAB			Germany
U. Schäkel *	SCHAE			Germany
G.J. Schuurhuis	SCHUU			Netherlands
H. Strobl	STR		Instiute of Immunology/VIRCC	Austria
T. te Kronnie *	KRO			Italy
J. Topaly	TOP			Germany
X. Toussard	TROU			France
G. Tschurtschenthaler *	TSCH			Austria
M. van't Veer *	VANV		Erasmus University Medical Center	Netherlands
* = Female Researcher

Lead Participants:

Prof.Dr. M.C. Béné (Nancy, France): Involved in leukemia immunophenotyping. Manager of the French group GEIL (Groupe d'Etude Immunologique des Leucémies). This group, which currently interacts with medical staff involved in the immunophenotyping of leukemias from over 50 French and Belgian centers and has developed contacts with two Romanian centers, meets twice a year on a regular basis, initiates and develops collaborative projects and has organized three international meetings in 1984, 1994 and 2002. Council member and Chair of the Biology Commission of the therapeutic group GOELAMS (Groupe Ouest Est des Leucémies et autres Maladies du Sang), council member of the therapeutic group GRAALL (Group for Research in Adult Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia). Founding member of EGIL (European Group for the Immunological characterization of Leukemias).

Prof.Dr. W. Gassmann (Siegen, Germany): Coordinator of the morphological and immunological projects within the German Competence Network “Acute and chronic leukemias”.

Prof.Dr. Gina Zini (Roma, Italy):

Participants:

G. Basso (, Italy):

G. Castoldi (, Italy):

J. Cermak (, Czech Republic):

Dr. M.T. Daniel (Paris, France): Member of the French-American-British Group of hematologists (FAB group) that has developed the standard classification system for leukemias and other haematological malignancies which has been accepted all over the world.

G. Flandrin (, France):

Prof.Dr. R. Fuchs (Eschweiler, Germany): Special experience in education and training of physicians regarding bone marrow and peripheral blood morphology. Established guidelines for diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic leukemias.

Prof.Dr. T. Haferlach (, Germany):

J. Hastka (, Germany):

H.A. Horst (, Germany):

W. Kern (, Germany):

Prof.Dr. H. Link (Kaiserslautern, Germany):

W.D. Ludwig (Berlin, Germany):

Dr. E. Matutes (London, UK):

T. Nebe (, Germany):

U. Oelschlägel (, Germany):

Prof.Dr. A. Orfao (Salamanca, Spain): Professor of Immunology, Director of the Central Cytometry Service and Principal Investigator at the Cancer Research Center, University of Salamanca. Involved in Leukemia Phenotyping. Member of European BIOMED Group for the study and standardization of minimal residual disease in acute leukemias, Member of the European Working Group in clinical cell analysis, Member of European Group for the immunological characterization of leukemias, Councillor of the executive board of the International Society for Analytical Cytology (1996-2000), Member of several NCCLS committees.

W. Pickl (, Austria):

Prof.Dr. A. Porwit-MacDonald (Stockholm, Sweden): Associated Professor of pathology and Head of hematopathology at Karolinska hospital. She is coordinator for the flow cytometry organisation for diagnosis and MRD follow-up within NOPHO. She has been working in the field of hematopathology since 1990, has experience of imunophenotyping analysis since 10 years and has participated in the EU concerted action on MRD 1994-97, European Working Group on Clinical Cell Analysis, Immunophenotyping Task Force since 1998 and European Bone Marrow Working Group since 2000.

R. Schabath (, Germany):

U. Schäkel (, Germany):

G.J. Schuurhuis (, Netherlands):

Dr. H. Strobl (Vienna, Austria):

T. te Kronnie (, Italy):

J. Topaly (, Germany):

X. Toussard (, France):

G. Tschurtschenthaler (, Austria):

Prof.Dr. M. van't Veer (Rotterdam, Netherlands): Erasmus MC: location Daniel den Hoed, Rotterdam. Senior Consultant in Hematology. Involved in the morphological examination immunophenotyping of blood and bone marrow cytology. Coordinator of the Hematology Review Committee of HOVON (Haemato- Oncology Working Group for Adult patients in the Netherlands) (1987–present). Founding member and Chairman of the Dutch Cooperative Study Group on Immunophenotyping of Leukemias and Lymphomas (SIHON) (1985–1996), member of the Slide Review Committee of Acute Leukemias and Myelodysplastic Syndromes of the EORTC (1994–at present), coordinating member of EGIL (European Group for the Immunological Characterization of Leukemias) (1994–present), reference for national quality control studies on leukocyte and platelet serology (SKMI) (1997–2001), member EORTC Lymphoma Study Group