Introducing a new scientific initiative for clinicians in AML from MD Education.

Every month one of the chairs, Dr. Naval Daver or Prof. Charlie Craddock, will interview a leading clinical expert in the area of AML. They will dive deep into hot topics and have open debate on current issues within the AML field. Each expert presentation is followed by a question and answer session with the chair, and includes downloadable slides to enhance understanding.

Co-chair

Naval Daver, MD

University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA

Co-chair

Charlie Craddock, MD

Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, U.K.

Chair: Naval Daver

October 2023

Role of MRD in transplant decision making in AML

Roland Walter

University of Washington, USA

Updates and future directions for post-transplant maintenance

Charlie Craddock

Queen Elizabeth Hospital, UK

Chair: Charlie Craddock

November 2023

Who should we transplant in AML and how: moving towards greater precision in transplant decision making

Alessandro Rambaldi

University of Milan, IT

CPX351 in Frontline AML: Current status and Future directions: Real world CPX analysis

Christina Rautenburg

University Hospital Essen, DE

Chair: Charlie Craddock

December 2023

Novel strategies with the potential to improve outcomes in patients treated with HMA-venetoclax: up-front triplets versus sequential add-on approaches

Naval Daver

MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA

Updates on current status of Menin inhibitor single agent: Efficacy, safety, biomarkers of response and mechanisms of resistance

Ghayas Issa

MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA

Chair: Naval Daver

January/2024

Role of MRD in transplant decision making in AML

Roland Walter

University of Washington, USA

Updates and future directions for post-transplant maintenance

Charlie Craddock

Queen Elizabeth Hospital, UK

Chair: Charlie Craddock

February/2024

Who should we transplant in AML and how: moving towards greater precision in transplant decision making

Alessandro Rambaldi

University of Milan, IT

CPX351 in Frontline AML: Current status and Future directions: Real world CPX analysis

Christina Rautenburg

University Hospital Essen, DE

Chair: Charlie Craddock

March/2024

Novel strategies with the potential to improve outcomes in patients treated with HMA-venetoclax: up-front triplets versus sequential add-on approaches

Naval Daver

MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA

Updates on current status of Menin inhibitor single agent: Efficacy, safety, biomarkers of response and mechanisms of resistance

Ghayas Issa

MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA

Chair: Naval Daver

April/2024

Novel immunotherapeutic approaches in AML: Bispecific Antibodies: MOA and clinical development

Marion Subklewe

Gene Center, USA

Novel immunotherapeutic approaches in AML: CART therapies in AML: current status and future prospects

Saar Gill

University of Pennsylvania, USA

Chair: Charlie Craddock

May/2024

TP53 targeted therapies in AML: Current status and emerging therapies

Paresh Vyas

University of Oxford, UK

IDH-1 and IDH-2 inhibitors: Targeted therapies for unfit patience in AML moving from R/R to Frontline use

Courtney Di Nardo

MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA

Chair: Naval Daver

June/2024

Optimizing outcomes in older adults treated with venetoclax based therapies Mechanisms of resistance and potential combinations

Andrew Wei

Monash University, AU

Updates on ELN2022 and integrating genomic information into decision making in AML

Hartmut Doehner

University Hospital of Ulm, DE

Chair: Charlie Craddock

July/2024

Innovative treatment strategies in fit and unfit adults with Flt3+ AML

Jessica Altman

University of Pennsylvania, USA

NPM1 directed therapies: Optimal application in frontline or MRD+ setting

Richard Dillon

King’s College London, UK

Chair: Naval Daver

August/2024

Novel relapse strategies in relapsed AML

Christoph Rollig

University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, DE

Familial AML

George Vassiliou

University of Cambridge, UK

Chair: Charlie Craddock

September/2024

Antibody based therapies in AML- Mylotarg and beyond

Amir Fathi

Dana-Farber /Harvard Cancer Center, USA

Improving outcomes in adults with APML

Steve Knapper

Cardiff University, UK

Chair: Naval Daver

October/2024

Molecular prognostication and genomics of newly diagnosed AML

Marina Konopleva

Montefiore Einstein Cancer Center, USA

Role of MRD in optimizing outcomes in older adults treated with HMA/VEN regimens-is it ever possible to safely stop therapy

Daniel Pollyea

University of Colorado, USA

Chair: Charlie Craddock

November/2024

Integrating MRD into management of fit adults with AML: who, when and how?

Sylvie Freeman

University of Birmingham, UK

The role of venetoclax in improving outcomes in fit adults with newly diagnosed and relapsed AML

Farhad Ravandi

MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA

Chair: Naval Daver

December/2024

Maintenance based approaches and future of maintenance therapy in AML approaches to maintenance in AML

GaiI Roboz

Weill Medical College of Cornell University, USA

Immune based therapies in AML and MDS: Future directions and prospects

Amer Zeidan

Yale University, UK

Naval-Daver
Naval Daver, MD

MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA

Dr Naval Daver is an associate professor and director of the Leukemia Research Alliance Program in the Department of Leukemia at MD Anderson Cancer Center (MDACC) in Houston, TX.

He is a clinical investigator with a focus on molecular and immune therapies in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and myeloid disease, and is principal investigator on more than 25 ongoing institutional, national, and international clinical trials in these diseases, including multiple registration and label enabling trials. 

Charlie Craddock
Charlie Craddock, MD

Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, U.K.

Professor Charles Craddock CBE, FRCP (UK), FRCPath, DPhil, FMedSci

Centre for Clinical Haematology at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, UK

Professor Charles Craddock is Director of the Birmingham Centre for Cellular Therapy and Transplant Blood, University Hospitals, Birmingham and Professor of Haemato-oncology, University of Birmingham. 

He trained in haematology at the Hammersmith Hospital in London, the Institute of Molecular Medicine at the University of Oxford, and the University of Washington in Seattle, USA. Professor Craddock is Chair of the UK Stem Cell Strategic Oversight Committee and was Medical Director of Anthony Nolan from 2010–2014. He was elected President of the British Society of Haematology in 2017. He drove the establishment and subsequent expansion of the £7 million Centre for Clinical Haematology at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital and, as Director of Birmingham Health Partners, led the development of the £24 million Birmingham Institute of Translational Medicine, which opened in 2015. Professor Craddock’s main research interests include the development of novel drug and transplant therapies in myeloid leukemias and he leads the UK Haemato-oncology Trials Acceleration Programme. He pioneered the development of a UK stem cell transplant trials network, IMPACT, one of only two worldwide, which was launched in 2017. 

He has published more than 225 papers in peer reviewed journals. Professor Craddock was awarded the CBE for services to medicine and medical research in the 2016 New Year’s Honours list and elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2020.