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Full Schedule

  • Wednesday, September 27, 2023
  • 9:00 AM – 9:30 AM EEST
    President's Address
  • 9:30 AM – 10:00 AM EEST
    Keynote: Somatic mutations in normal tissues
  • 10:00 AM – 10:15 AM EEST
    Exhibition and Coffee Break
  • 10:00 AM – 3:30 PM EEST
    Exhibition Open
  • 10:15 AM – 12:15 PM EEST
    Origin of MM cells

    Chair: Nikhil Munshi, MD – Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School

    Co-Chair: Faith E. Davies, MD (she/her/hers) – Perlmutter Cancer Center, NYU Langone Health, New York, NY, USA

    General Session

  • 10:30 AM – 12:15 PM EEST
    7th Nursing & Allied Health Symposium - A Sprint and a Marathon: Building Resilience

    Co-Chair: Monica Morris, MSc, RN – Myeloma UK

    Co-Chair: Ioanna Tsatsou

    Nursing & Allied Health Symposium

  • 12:15 PM – 12:30 PM EEST
    Exhibition and Coffee Break
  • 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM EEST
    7th Nursing & Allied Health Symposium - Strengthening the Host

    Co-Chair: Beth Faiman, PhD, MSN, APN-BC,BMTCN, AOCN, FAAN, FAPO – Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Institute, Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology

    Co-Chair: Matthias Hellberg-Naegele, MSc – Comprehensive Cancer Center Zurich

    Nursing & Allied Health Symposium

  • 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM EEST
    Industry Symposium Supported by Bristol Myers Squibb: Harnessing the Immune System Before and After CAR T Cell Therapies

    Industry Symposium

  • 1:30 PM – 2:40 PM EEST
    7th Nursing & Allied Health Symposium - Building Better Lives

    Nursing & Allied Health Symposium

  • 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM EEST
    Exhibition and Lunch
  • 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM EEST
    Poster Session 1
  • 3:30 PM – 5:30 PM EEST
    Newly Diagnosed Multiple Myeloma

    Chair: Maria-Victoria Mateos, PhD (she/her/hers) – University Hospital of Salamanca

    Co-Chair: S. Vincent Rajkumar, MD – Mayo Clinic

    General Session

  • 5:30 PM – 5:45 PM EEST
    Coffee Break
  • 5:45 PM – 6:45 PM EEST
    Abstract Session 1: MRD and risk stratification

    Co-Chair: Morie A. Gertz, MD, MACP (he/him/his) – Mayo Clinic

    Co-Chair: Hartmut Goldschmidt, MD – Department of Medicine V, University Hospital Heidelberg; and National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT)

    Oral Abstract Session

  • 5:45 PM – 6:45 PM EEST
    Abstract Session 2: Biology

    Co-Chair: Annemiek Broijl, MD, PhD (she/her/hers) – ErasmusMC

    Co-Chair: Lugui Qiu, MD (he/him/his) – Institute of Hematology and Blood Diseases Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences.

    Oral Abstract Session

  • 6:45 PM – 7:30 PM EEST
    Fireside Chat

    Speaker: S. Vincent Rajkumar, MD – Mayo Clinic

    Speaker: Siddhartha Mukherjee

    Speaker: Sagar Lonial, MD, FACP – Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA

    General Session

  • 7:30 PM – 8:45 PM EEST
    Welcome to Athens Reception
  • Thursday, September 28, 2023
  • 7:00 AM – 8:00 AM EEST
    Career Development Workshop: Nuts and bolts of developing a clinical trial
  • 7:00 AM – 8:00 AM EEST
    Meet the Professor: Clonal hematopoiesis in myeloma: implications for therapy
  • 7:00 AM – 8:00 AM EEST
    Meet the Professor: Light chain amyloidosis
  • 7:00 AM – 8:00 AM EEST
    Meet the Professor: Management of bone disease
  • 7:00 AM – 8:00 AM EEST
    Meet the Professor: Managing renal failure in MM
  • 7:00 AM – 8:00 AM EEST
    Meet the Professor: Optimal imaging approaches in MM
  • 7:00 AM – 8:00 AM EEST
    Meet the Professor: Racial disparity: impact and solutions
  • 7:00 AM – 8:00 AM EEST
    Meet the Professor: Understanding the concept of MGRS
  • 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM EEST
    EHA-IMS Symposium

    Co-Chair: Pieter Sonneveld, MD, PhD (he/him/his) – EMN

    Co-Chair: Nikhil Munshi, MD – Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School

    General Session

  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM EEST
    IMS Awards
  • 10:00 AM – 10:30 AM EEST
    Presidential Gavel Passing Ceremony
  • 10:00 AM – 1:30 PM EEST
    Exhibition Open
  • 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM EEST
    Novel Technology and Insights in MM

    Chair: Kenneth C. Anderson, MD – The LeBow Institute for Myeloma Therapeutics and Jerome Lipper Multiple Myeloma Center, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

    Co-Chair: Gareth Morgan, MD, PHD, FRCP, FRCPATH (he/him/his) – NYU Langone Health Perlmutter Cancer Center

    General Session

  • 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM EEST
    Exhibition and Lunch
  • 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM EEST
    Poster Session 2
  • 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM EEST
    Industry Symposium Supported by Janssen: A new frontier? Redirecting treatment strategies in MM

    Chair: Michel Delforge, MD/Phd – University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

    Industry Symposium

  • 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM EEST
    Triple Class Refractory Myeloma

    Chair: Philippe Moreau, MD – University Hospital Hôtel-Dieu, Nantes, France

    Co-Chair: Sagar Lonial, MD, FACP – Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA

    General Session

  • 5:00 PM – 5:15 PM EEST
    Coffee Break
  • 5:15 PM – 6:15 PM EEST
    Abstract Session 3: Novel combinations, access and long term outcomes

    Co-Chair: Gordon Cook, PhD – Clinical Trials Research Unit, Leeds Institute of Clinical Trials Research, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK

    Co-Chair: Eirini Katodritou, MD, PhD (she/her/hers) – Department of Hematology, Theagenion Cancer Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Oral Abstract Session

  • 5:15 PM – 6:15 PM EEST
    Abstract Session 4: Genomics

    Co-Chair: Masood A. Shammas, PhD – Dana Farber Cancer Institute and VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA, USA

    Co-Chair: Mark Bustoros, MD – Meyer Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University

    Oral Abstract Session

  • 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM EEST
    IMS Cultural Celebration
  • Friday, September 29, 2023
  • 7:00 AM – 8:00 AM EEST
    Career Development Workshop: Setting up your laboratory research program
  • 7:00 AM – 8:00 AM EEST
    Meet the Professor: Approaches to MRD assessment
  • 7:00 AM – 8:00 AM EEST
    Meet the Professor: Assessing QOL and PRO measures
  • 7:00 AM – 8:00 AM EEST
    Meet the Professor: Laboratory assessment of immune function
  • 7:00 AM – 8:00 AM EEST
    Meet the Professor: Optimizing in vitro cellular models of MM
  • 7:00 AM – 8:00 AM EEST
    Meet the Professor: Proteomic evaluation in MM
  • 7:00 AM – 8:00 AM EEST
    Meet the Professor: Single cell genomic techniques for study of myeloma
  • 7:00 AM – 8:00 AM EEST
    Meet the Professor: Waldenstrom macroglobulinemia
  • 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM EEST
    Riney Research Symposium

    Co-Chair: Nikhil Munshi, MD – Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School

    Co-Chair: Kenneth C. Anderson, MD – The LeBow Institute for Myeloma Therapeutics and Jerome Lipper Multiple Myeloma Center, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

    General Session

  • 9:00 AM – 9:30 AM EEST
    Young Investigator Awards
  • 9:30 AM – 9:45 AM EEST
    Exhibition and Coffee Break
  • 9:30 AM – 2:15 PM EEST
    Exhibition Open
  • 9:45 AM – 11:45 AM EEST
    Practical Aspects of Immunotherapy

    Chair: Jesus San Miguel, PhD. MD. (he/him/his) – Clínica Universidad de Navarra

    Co-Chair: Noopur Raje, MD – Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center

    General Session

  • 11:45 AM – 12:45 PM EEST
    Industry Symposium Supported by GSK: Current Issues in Multiple Myeloma: Management of the Aging Population

    Chair: Paul G. Richardson, MD – Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

    Industry Symposium

  • 12:45 PM – 2:15 PM EEST
    Exhibition and Lunch
  • 1:15 PM – 2:15 PM EEST
    Poster Session 3
  • 2:15 PM – 4:15 PM EEST
    Plenary Session

    Co-Chair: Robert Z. Orlowski, PhD, MD (he/him/his) – The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

    Co-Chair: Qing Yi, MD, PhD (he/him/his) – Houston Methodist Neal Cancer Center

    Oral Abstract Session

  • 4:15 PM – 4:30 PM EEST
    Coffee Break
  • 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM EEST
    Abstract Session 5: Immune Therapies

    Co-Chair: Katja Weisel, MD (she/her/hers) – University Medical Center of Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

    Co-Chair: Simon J. Harrison, MBBS, MRCP(uk), FRCPath(uk), FRACP, PhD (he/him/his) – Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre

    Oral Abstract Session

  • 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM EEST
    Abstract Session 6: Immune

    Co-Chair: Eileen M. Boyle, MD PhD – UCL Cancer Institute

    Co-Chair: Fanghuang Zhan, MD & PhD (he/him/his) – University of Arkasas Medical Sciences

    Oral Abstract Session

  • Saturday, September 30, 2023
  • 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM EEST
    Career Development Workshop: The art of writing grants
  • 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM EEST
    Meet the Professor: Artificial intelligence in myeloma: what would its utility be?
  • 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM EEST
    Meet the Professor: Castlemans and POEMS
  • 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM EEST
    Meet the Professor: Diagnostic approach to a monoclonal protein (lab-based)
  • 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM EEST
    Meet the Professor: Neuropathy and MGUS
  • 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM EEST
    Meet the Professor: Risk stratified follow up of MGUS and SMM
  • 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM EEST
    Meet the Professor: Solitary tumor plasmacytoma
  • 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM EEST
    Meet the Professor: Vaccination and infection prevention
  • 9:00 AM – 9:40 AM EEST
    Special Session

    Co-Chair: MELETIOS DIMOPOULOS, MD (he/him/his) – Department of Clinical Therapeutics/Medical School/National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

    Co-Chair: Efstathios Kastritis, MD, PhD (he/him/his) – National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

    General Session

  • 9:40 AM – 10:00 AM EEST
    Coffee Break
  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM EEST
    Industry Symposium Supported by Sanofi: Tailoring Treatment Strategies in the Modern Myeloma Landscape

    Chair: Joseph Mikhael, MD – Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), City of Hope Cancer Center

    Industry Symposium

  • 11:00 AM – 11:15 AM EEST
    Coffee Break
  • 11:15 AM – 1:15 PM EEST
    Challenges in MM

    Chair: Shaji K. Kumar, MD – Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, US

    Co-Chair: Francesca Gay, MD – Division of Hematology 1, Clinical trial unit AOU città della salute e della scienza, University of Torino

    General Session

  • 1:15 PM – 1:30 PM EEST
    Closing Ceremony
  • 1:45 PM – 2:45 PM EEST
    Special Career Development Session