Committee chair

Kjeld Schmiegelow (ALL)
Kjeld Schmiegelow Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital

Abstract

The IBFM ALL Committee is a network that shares published and unpublished basic science and clinical trials data from AIEOP/BFM, ALLTogether, ALL-IC, Australian, and Japanese collaborators to promote the development of more effective and less toxic treatment strategies for childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). The committee and its members collaborate closely with US groups (The Children’s Oncology Group, St Jude Children’s Research Hospital, and the Dana Farber Consortium), including within the so-called Ponte di Legno consortium (PdL)) that share data on rare ALL subsets for the development of future clinical trials.

Committee members participate in organizing interim ALL meetings in Milan (January, annually), SIOPE meetings (annually), PdL meetings (at 1-2 years intervals), and in-between online meetings.

The committee chair is member of the IBFM Board, and the committee works closely with the other IBFM committees to promote research, meetings, and educational activities.

Scientific aim

  • To promote the development of more effective and less toxic treatment strategies for ALL

Open clinical trials

  • AIEOP-BFM ALL 2017 (2017 – )

    Randomized clinical trial for ALL (age 1-18y)

  • ALL-IC 2022 (3/2023 – )

    Randomized clinical trial for ALL in countries with limited resources

  • ALLTogether-1 (2021 – )

    Randomized clinical trial for ALL (age up to 45 years)

  • EsPhALL2017-COGAALL1631

    Randomized trial for patients with Ph+ ALLAIEOP-BFM ALL 2017 (2017-2023): Randomized clinical trial (age 1.0-21.9y)

  • Interfant-21 (2/2023 – )

    Non-randomized clinical trial for all pts under 1y of age with KMT2A rear. ALL

Completed clinical trials

  • AIEOP-BFM ALL 2000 (2000-2006)

    Randomized clinical trial for ALL (age 1-18y)

  • AIEOP-BFM ALL 2009

    Randomized clinical trial for ALL (age 1-18y)

  • ALL IC-BFM 2009 (2010-2018)

    Randomized clinical trial for ALL in countries with limited resources

  • ALL-SCT BFM 2003

    HSCT in VHR ALL

  • ALLIC-BFM 2002 (2002-2009)

    Randomized clinical protocol for ALL in countries with limited resources

  • EsPhALL (2004-2009)

    ALL positive for the t(9;22)[BCR/ABL] translocation

  • IDH (1991-1995)

    SR ALL

  • INTERFANT-06

    Randomized clinical trial for ALL under 1y

  • Interfant-99 (1999-2006)

    ALL below the age of one year (ALL<1y)

  • VCR/Steroid Pulses (1995-2000)

    MR ALL

  • hSCT in VHR ALL (1995-2000)

Selected publications

2015 Sep 20;33(27):2938-48. doi: 10.1200/JCO.2014.59.1636. Epub 2015 Aug 24.
J Clin Oncol
Ching-Hon Pui, Jun J Yang, Stephen P Hunger, Rob Pieters, Martin Schrappe, Andrea Biondi, Ajay Vora, André Baruchel, Lewis B Silverman, Kjeld Schmiegelow, Gabriele Escherich, Keizo Horibe, Yves C M Benoit, Shai Izraeli, Allen Eng Juh Yeoh, Der-Cherng Liang, James R Downing, William E Evans, Mary V Relling, Charles G Mullighan
2023 Jan;37(1):212-216. doi: 10.1038/s41375-022-01737-4. Epub 2022 Oct 29.
Leukemia
Kentaro Ohki, Ellie R Butler, Nobutaka Kiyokawa, Shinsuke Hirabayashi, Anke K Bergmann, Anja Möricke, Judith M Boer, Hélène Cavé, Giovanni Cazzaniga, Allen Eng Juh Yeoh, Masashi Sanada, Toshihiko Imamura, Hiroto Inaba, Charles G Mullighan, Mignon L Loh, Ulrika Norén-Nyström, Lee-Yung Shih, Marketa Zaliova, Ching-Hon Pui, Oskar A Haas, Christine J Harrison, Anthony V Moorman, Atsushi Manabe
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Outcomes of Childhood Noninfant Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia With 11q23/KMT2A Rearrangements in a Modern Therapy Era: A Retrospective International Study
2023 Mar 1;41(7):1404-1422. doi: 10.1200/JCO.22.01297. Epub 2022 Oct 18.
J Clin Oncol
Andishe Attarbaschi, Anja Möricke, Christine J Harrison, Georg Mann, André Baruchel, Barbara De Moerloose, Valentino Conter, Meenakshi Devidas, Sarah Elitzur, Gabriele Escherich, Stephen P Hunger, Keizo Horibe, Atsushi Manabe, Mignon L Loh, Rob Pieters, Kjeld Schmiegelow, Lewis B Silverman, Jan Stary, Ajay Vora, Ching-Hon Pui, Martin Schrappe, Martin Zimmermann; Ponte-di-Legno Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Working Group
2022 Mar 24;139(12):1785-1793. doi: 10.1182/blood.2021012328.
Blood
Swantje Buchmann, Martin Schrappe, Andre Baruchel, Andrea Biondi, Michael Borowitz, Myriam Campbell, Gunnar Cario, Giovanni Cazzaniga, Gabriele Escherich, Christine J Harrison, Mats Heyman, Stephen P Hunger, Csongor Kiss, Hsi-Che Liu, Franco Locatelli, Mignon L Loh, Atsushi Manabe, Georg Mann, Rob Pieters, Ching-Hon Pui, Susana Rives, Kjeld Schmiegelow, Lewis B Silverman, Jan Stary, Ajay Vora, Patrick Brown
2021 Jul;8(7):e513-e523. doi: 10.1016/S2352-3026(21)00136-8.
Lancet Haematol
Liv Andrés-Jensen, Andishe Attarbaschi, Edit Bardi, Shlomit Barzilai-Birenboim, Deepa Bhojwani, Melanie M Hagleitner, Christina Halsey, Arja Harila-Saari, Raphaele R L van Litsenburg, Melissa M Hudson, Sima Jeha, Motohiro Kato, Leontien Kremer, Wojciech Mlynarski, Anja Möricke, Rob Pieters, Caroline Piette, Elizabeth Raetz, Leila Ronceray, Claudia Toro, Maria Grazia Valsecchi, Lynda M Vrooman, Sigal Weinreb, Naomi Winick, Kjeld Schmiegelow; Ponte di Legno Severe Toxicity Working Group
2021 Nov;35(11):3272-3277. doi: 10.1038/s41375-021-01199-0. Epub 2021 Mar 10.
Leukemia
Shinsuke Hirabayashi, Ellie R Butler, Kentaro Ohki, Nobutaka Kiyokawa, Anke K Bergmann, Anja Möricke, Judith M Boer, Hélène Cavé, Giovanni Cazzaniga, Allen Eng Juh Yeoh, Masashi Sanada, Toshihiko Imamura, Hiroto Inaba, Charles Mullighan, Mignon L Loh, Ulrika Norén-Nyström, Agata Pastorczak, Lee-Yung Shih, Marketa Zaliova, Ching-Hon Pui, Oskar A Haas, Christine J Harrison, Anthony V Moorman, Atsushi Manabe
2021 Jan;8(1):e55-e66. doi: 10.1016/S2352-3026(20)30353-7. Epub 2020 Dec 22.
Lancet Haematol
Monique L den Boer, Gunnar Cario, Anthony V Moorman, Judith M Boer, Hester A de Groot-Kruseman, Marta Fiocco, Gabriele Escherich, Toshihiko Imamura, Allen Yeoh, Rosemary Sutton, Luciano Dalla-Pozza, Nobutaka Kiyokawa, Martin Schrappe, Kathryn G Roberts, Charles G Mullighan, Stephen P Hunger, Ajay Vora, Andishe Attarbaschi, Marketa Zaliova, Sara Elitzur, Giovanni Cazzaniga, Andrea Biondi, Mignon L Loh, Rob Pieters; Ponte di Legno Childhood ALL Working Group
2021 Feb 1;39(4):295-307. doi: 10.1200/JCO.20.02529. Epub 2020 Dec 17.
J Clin Oncol
Christina Peters, Jean-Hugues Dalle, Franco Locatelli, Ulrike Poetschger, Petr Sedlacek, Jochen Buechner, Peter J Shaw, Raquel Staciuk, Marianne Ifversen, Herbert Pichler, Kim Vettenranta, Peter Svec, Olga Aleinikova, Jerry Stein, Tayfun Güngör, Jacek Toporski, Tony H Truong, Cristina Diaz-de-Heredia, Marc Bierings, Hany Ariffin, Mohammed Essa, Birgit Burkhardt, Kirk Schultz, Roland Meisel, Arjan Lankester, Marc Ansari, Martin Schrappe; IBFM Study Group; Arend von Stackelberg; IntReALL Study Group; Adriana Balduzzi; I-BFM SCT Study Group; Selim Corbacioglu; EBMT Paediatric Diseases Working Party; Peter Bader
2019 Sep;20(9):1200-1202. doi: 10.1016/S1470-2045(19)30487-5.
Lancet Oncol
Pamela R Kearns, Gilles Vassal, Ruth Ladenstein, Martin Schrappe, Andrea Biondi, Patricia Blanc, Angelika Eggert, Anita Kienesberger, Olga Kozhaeva, Rob Pieters, Kjeld Schmiegelow
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International cooperative study identifies treatment strategy in childhood ambiguous lineage leukemia
2018 Jul 19;132(3):264-276. doi: 10.1182/blood-2017-12-821363. Epub 2018 May 2.
Blood
Ondrej Hrusak, Valerie de Haas, Jitka Stancikova, Barbora Vakrmanova, Iveta Janotova, Ester Mejstrikova, Vaclav Capek, Jan Trka, Marketa Zaliova, Ales Luks, Kirsten Bleckmann, Anja Möricke, Julie Irving, Benigna Konatkowska, Thomas B Alexander, Hiroto Inaba, Kjeld Schmiegelow, Simone Stokley, Zuzana Zemanova, Anthony V Moorman, Jorge Gabriel Rossi, Maria Sara Felice, Luciano Dalla-Pozza, Jessa Morales, Michael Dworzak, Barbara Buldini, Giuseppe Basso, Myriam Campbell, Maria Elena Cabrera, Neda Marinov, Sarah Elitzur, Shai Izraeli, Drorit Luria, Tamar Feuerstein, Alexandra Kolenova, Peter Svec, Olena Kreminska, Karen R Rabin, Sophia Polychronopoulou, Elaine da Costa, Hanne Vibeke Marquart, Antonis Kattamis, Richard Ratei, Dirk Reinhardt, John K Choi, Martin Schrappe, Jan Stary
2016 Jun;17(6):e231-e239. doi: 10.1016/S1470-2045(16)30035-3.
Lancet Oncol
Kjeld Schmiegelow, Andishe Attarbaschi, Shlomit Barzilai, Gabriele Escherich, Thomas Leth Frandsen, Christina Halsey, Rachael Hough, Sima Jeha, Motohiro Kato, Der-Cherng Liang, Torben Stamm Mikkelsen, Anja Möricke, Riitta Niinimäki, Caroline Piette, Maria Caterina Putti, Elizabeth Raetz, Lewis B Silverman, Roderick Skinner, Ruta Tuckuviene, Inge van der Sluis, Ester Zapotocka; Ponte di Legno toxicity working group
2014 Jan 20;32(3):174-84. doi: 10.1200/JCO.2013.48.6522. Epub 2013 Dec 16.
J Clin Oncol
Jan Stary, Martin Zimmermann, Myriam Campbell, Luis Castillo, Eduardo Dibar, Svetlana Donska, Alejandro Gonzalez, Shai Izraeli, Dragana Janic, Janez Jazbec, Josip Konja, Emilia Kaiserova, Jerzy Kowalczyk, Gabor Kovacs, Chi-Kong Li, Edina Magyarosy, Alexander Popa, Batia Stark, Yahia Jabali, Jan Trka, Ondrej Hrusak, Hansjörg Riehm, Giuseppe Masera, Martin Schrappe
2012 Apr 12;366(15):1371-81. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1110169.
N Engl J Med
Martin Schrappe, Stephen P Hunger, Ching-Hon Pui, Vaskar Saha, Paul S Gaynon, André Baruchel, Valentino Conter, Jacques Otten, Akira Ohara, Anne Birgitta Versluys, Gabriele Escherich, Mats Heyman, Lewis B Silverman, Keizo Horibe, Georg Mann, Bruce M Camitta, Jochen Harbott, Hansjörg Riehm, Sue Richards, Meenakshi Devidas, Martin Zimmermann
2010 Feb;24(2):253-4. doi: 10.1038/leu.2009.276.
Leukemia
M Schrappe, J Nachman, S Hunger, K Schmiegelow, V Conter, G Masera, R Pieters, C H Pui
2010 Mar;24(3):521-35. doi: 10.1038/leu.2009.268. Epub 2009 Dec 24.
Leukemia
M Brüggemann, A Schrauder, T Raff, H Pfeifer, M Dworzak, O G Ottmann, V Asnafi, A Baruchel, R Bassan, Y Benoit, A Biondi, H Cavé, H Dombret, A K Fielding, R Foà, N Gökbuget, A H Goldstone, N Goulden, G Henze, D Hoelzer, G E Janka-Schaub, E A Macintyre, R Pieters, A Rambaldi, J-M Ribera, K Schmiegelow, O Spinelli, J Stary, A von Stackelberg, M Kneba, M Schrappe, J J M van Dongen; European Working Group for Adult Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (EWALL); International Berlin-Frankfurt-Münster Study Group (I-BFM-SG)

Committee members

  • Andishe Attarbaschi
  • Andre Baruchel
  • Andrea Biondi
  • Arndt Borkhardt
  • Myriam Campbell
  • Gunnar Cario
  • Luis Castillo
  • Valentino Conter
  • Ximo Duarte
  • Sarah Elitzur
  • Gaby Escherich
  • Marisa Felice
  • Chris Halsey
  • Mats Heyman
  • Shai Izraeli
  • Csongor Kiss
  • Alexandra Kolenova
  • Gabor Kovacs
  • Franco Locatelli
  • Olli Lohi
  • Atsushi Manabe
  • Veerle Mondelaers
  • Anthony Moorman
  • J John Moppett
  • Anja Möricke
  • Rob Pieters
  • Susana Rives
  • Carmelo Rizzari
  • Sujith Samarasinghe
  • Kjeld Schmiegelow
  • Martin Schrappe
  • Owen Smith
  • Marin Stanulla
  • Jan Stary
  • Marion Strullu
  • Tomasz Szczepanski
  • Toby Trahair
  • Anne Uyttebroeck
  • Maria Grazia Valsecchi
  • Inge van der Sluis
  • Luciana Vinti
  • Ajay Vora
  • Martin Zimmermann