Program Day One Friday, April 11th 2025 Day Two Saturday, April 12th 2025 07:30 am Registration & Breakfast 08:30 am Inaugural Programme Session I - Aplastic Anemia Chair Person : Dr. Sonia Nityanand, Dr. Prantar Chakrabarthi 09:00 am Immune Dysregulation and role of Regulatory cells in Aplastic Anemia Prof. Ghulam Mufti Kings College, London 09:30 am Is it Prime Time for Thriple Therapy to become standard of care in Aplastic Anemia Dr. Phillip Scheinberg Hospital A Beneficência Portuguesa, São Paulo, Brazil 10:00 am Managing Aplastic Anemia in India – AIIMS Experience Dr. Rishi Dhawan AIIMS, New Delhi, India 10:30 am Morning break Session II - Lab Session I - Biology, Gene editing and diagnosis Chair Person : Dr. Deepak Kumar Mishra, Dr. Anu Korula 11:00 am Fanconi Anemia and Telomeropathies (Virtual) Dr. Babu Rao NIIH, Mumbai 11:25 am PGI experience with Telomere length measurement in AA Dr. Sreejesh Sreedharanunni PGIMER, Chandigarh 11:50 am Disease modelling using IPSCS Dr. Shaji R Velayudhan Christian Medical College, Vellore, India 12:15 pm Molecular analysis of Aplastic Anemia – Where are we in India Dr. Eunice Sindhuvi CMC Vellore 12:40 pm Lunch and poster session Session III - Aplastic Anemia in children Chair Person : Dr. Tulika Seth, Dr. Ramaswamy 02:00 pm Congenital Aplastic Anemia in children – How do I manage? Dr. Carlo Dufour IRCCS Giannina Gaslini, Genoa, Italy. 02:25 pm Immunosuppressive therapy in children with AA (Dual vs Thriple Therapy) Dr. Revathy Raj Apollo Hospital, Chennai 02:50 pm Advances in the management of Fanconi Anemia including transplant Dr. Parinda Mehta Cincinnati Children, USA 03:15 pm Genotype-Phenotype correlation in diamond blackfan anemia (Virtual) Dr. Neelam Giri National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, USA. 03:40 pm Haploidentical transplants in children with AA Dr. Sunil Bhat Narayana Medical Centre, Bengaluru 04:05 pm Tea Break Session IV – Aplastic Anemia in India Chair Person : Dr. Sashikant Apte, Dr. Jose Easow 04:30 pm Generic equine ATG can replace ATGAM Dr. Arihant Jain PGIMER, Chandigarh 04:45 pm Alternate donor transplant is the answer Dr. Sharat Damodar Mazumdar Shaw Medical Center 05:00 pm Rabbit ATG is still useful Dr. Ganesh Jaishetwar Yashoda Hospitals, Hyderabad 05:15 pm Oral drugs are probably the way to go Dr. Neeraj Sidharthan AIIMS, Kochi 05:30 pm Questions and Answers Session V – Long term complications Chair Person : Dr. Seema Bhatwadekar, Dr. Pankaj Malhotra 05:45 pm Clonal evolution following use of TPO Agonists – Should we be worried? Dr. Phillip Scheinberg Hospital A Beneficência Portuguesa, São Paulo, Brazil 06:15 pm Screening for early detection of cancer in FA and Telomere biology disorders (Virtual) Dr. Neelam Giri National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, USA. 06:45 pm Long term complications of FA – Challenges and Progress made Dr. Parinda Mehta Cincinnati Children, USA 07:15 pm Factors predicting transformation to MDS from AA Dr. Shreyans Ashok Gandhi King's College Hospital NHS Trust, London 07:45 pm Dinner 07:00 am Registration + Breakfast Session VI - Myelodysplastic Syndromes/PNH Chair Person : Dr. Velu Nair, Dr. Tuphan Kanti Dolai 08:00 am MDS – A morphologist’s approach Dr. Nitty Mathews CMC Vellore 08:25 am New horizons in the treatment of lower risk MDS Dr. Biju George Christian Medical College, Vellore, India 08:50 am Advances in the management of high risk MDS – Role of HMAs Dr. Austin Kulasekararaj King's College Hospital, London, UK. 09:20 am Impact of Germline and Somatic mutations in childhood MDS (Virtual) Prof. Marcin Wlodarski St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, USA. 09:50 am Stem cell transplant for MDS – Who, Where, Why? Dr. Shreyans Ashok Gandhi King's College Hospital NHS Trust, London 10:20 am Break Session VII - Aplastic anemia - Indian perspective/Supportive care Chair Person : Dr. Aby Abraham, Dr. Ganesh Jaiteshwar 10:50 am Generic equine ATG in patients with Aplastic Anemia Dr. S. P. Sanyal Fortis Hospital, Mumbai 11:05 am Experience with Horse ATG in India Dr. Radhika Setti NIMS, Hyderabad 11:20 am Bacterial and Fungal infections in Aplastic Anemia Dr. Sharon Lionel CMC Vellore 11:40 am Upfront haplo-identical transplants in children Dr. Sohini Chattopadhyay AIG Hospitals 12:00 pm Approach to elderly patients with aplastic anemia Dr. Prantar Chakrabarti Zoho Corporation, Tenkasi 12:20 pm Aplastic Anemia Registry Dr. Biju George Christian Medical College, Vellore, India 12:40 pm Questions and Answers 01:00 pm Lunch Session VIII - Aplastic anemia - Session II Chair Person : Dr. Ajay Sharma, Dr. Chepsy Phillip 02:00 pm Stem cell transplantation for paediatric AA Dr. Carlo Dufour IRCCS Giannina Gaslini, Genoa, Italy. 02:30 pm Haploidentical transplants for Fanconi Anemia (Virtual) Dr. Carmem Bonfim Brazil 03:00 pm Complement inhibitors and HSCT in PNH – Current status Dr. Austin Kulasekararaj King's College Hospital, London, UK. 03:30 pm Challenges of Clonal hemopoiesis and its modelling Prof. Ghulam Mufti Kings College, London 04:00 pm Closing ceremony followed by tea Close
