Committee Chair

Ulrike Pötschger (IMM)
Ulrike Pötschger Childrens Cancer Research Institute, Vienna

Abstract

Committee members are statisticians, clinical trial associates, data managers and information technology people. They offer methodological advice and support to clinical teams and researcher, to develop, initiate, conduct, manage, analyze and report clinical studies. As such, this is a multidisciplinary committee which provide the other, disease-oriented I-BFM-SG Committees with its expertise for the successful implementation of studies in various fields of onco-hematology. IMMC role is particularly important in international projects which require a strong coordination activity.

Scientific aims

Our main aim is to provide expertise and support in issues related to methodology for all scientific activities of the I-BFM. Focusing on clinical research, the tasks range from support in designing, coordinating, and executing clinical trials, regulatory advice, support in data base design and implementation and issues related to statistical methodology from the statistical design, the analysis to the final publication.

The ongoing evolution in medicine as well as unaddressed methodologically needs, asks for refined and novel approaches of clinical trial operations, IT-support and statistical design and analysis. The IMMC aims to share experiences on methodological developments between the methodologists and between IMMC-members and the other I-BFM researchers and to provide state-of-the-art expertise.

Open and completed clinical trials

IMMC members are involved in many clinical trials and projects promoted within the I-BFM-SG. More details can be found in the pages dedicated to the ALL Committee, AML Committee, etc. International projects include the initiatives of the ‘Ponte di Legno’ consortium of ALL study groups, which are focused on the improvement of overall survival in uncommon subgroups of childhood ALL.

Selected publications

2022 Jan;31(1):76-86. doi: 10.1177/09622802211041756. Epub 2021 Nov 23.
Stat Methods Med Res
Martina Mittlböck, Ulrike Pötschger, Harald Heinzl
2018 Jan 19;18(1):14. doi: 10.1186/s12874-017-0430-5.
BMC Med Res Methodol
Ulrike Pötschger, Harald Heinzl, Maria Grazia Valsecchi, Martina Mittlböck
2016 Jan 11:16:5. doi: 10.1186/s12874-015-0103-1.
BMC Med Res Methodol
Paola Rebora, Laura Antolini, David V Glidden, Maria Grazia Valsecchi
2016 Mar 30;35(7):1032-48. doi: 10.1002/sim.6765. Epub 2015 Oct 26.
Stat Med
Davide Paolo Bernasconi, Paola Rebora, Simona Iacobelli, Maria Grazia Valsecchi, Laura Antolini
2015 Dec 10;34(28):3648-60. doi: 10.1002/sim.6597. Epub 2015 Jul 27.
Stat Med
Paola Rebora, Stefania Galimberti, Maria Grazia Valsecchi
2015 Mar 21:15:24. doi: 10.1186/s12874-015-0009-y.
BMC Med Res Methodol
Matteo Rota, Laura Antolini, Maria Grazia Valsecchi
2015 Jan;94(1):23-34. doi: 10.1007/s00277-014-2177-y. Epub 2014 Aug 7.
Ann Hematol
Margriet Oosterveld, Stefan Suciu, Petra Muus, Ulrich Germing, Michel Delforge, Amin Belhabri, Carlo Aul, Dominik Selleslag, Augustin Ferrant, Jean-Pierre Marie, Sergio Amadori, Ulrich Jehn, Franco Mandelli, Uwe Hess, Eva Hellström-Lindberg, Songuel Cakmak-Wollgast, Marco Vignetti, Boris Labar, Roel Willemze, Theo de Witte
2016 Dec;25(6):2895-2908. doi: 10.1177/0962280214534411. Epub 2014 May 19.
Stat Methods Med Res
Paola Rebora, Maria Grazia Valsecchi
2014 Sep;61(9):1551-7. doi: 10.1002/pbc.25044. Epub 2014 Apr 7.
Pediatr Blood Cancer
Gilles Vassal, Edel Fitzgerald, Martin Schrappe, Frédéric Arnold, Jerzy Kowalczyk, David Walker, Lars Hjorth, Riccardo Riccardi, Anita Kienesberger, Kathy-Pritchard Jones, Maria Grazia Valsecchi, Dragana Janic, Henrik Hasle, Pamela Kearns, Giulia Petrarulo, Francesco Florindi, Samira Essiaf, Ruth Ladenstein

Committee members

  • Helga Arnardottir
  • Andrea Barth
  • Joanne Chuah
  • Cristian Ciria
  • Carin Darbin-Korbijn
  • Paola De Lorenzo
  • Hester De Groot
  • Hanneke De Ridder
  • Dimitros Doganis
  • Alexandra Fischer
  • Marta Fiocco
  • Stefania Galimberti
  • Petr Gajdos
  • Tom Groeneveld
  • Evgenia Glogova
  • Mats Heyman
  • Iveta Janotova
  • Akiko Kada
  • Karolina Kramarzora
  • Paulina Kurzmann
  • Jan Lieverst
  • Naomi Litichever
  • Ulrike Meyer
  • Corinna Meier-Windhorst
  • Ronit Nirel
  • Anthea N
  • Peter Nölke
  • Catriona Parker
  • Bettina Paul
  • Ulrike Pötschger
  • Ardine Reedijk
  • Roberto Rondelli
  • Akiko Saito
  • Toshiki Saito
  • Erdogan Sarper
  • Nazan Saper
  • Daniela Silvestri
  • Stefan Suciu
  • Maria Grazia Valsecchi
  • Alena Vrzalova
  • Martin Zimmermann