Bone Marrow Failure

1. The Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Hematopoiesis.- 2. Acquired Aplastic Anemia.- 3. Pediatric Myelodysplastic Syndromes.- 4. Fanconi Anemia: A Pathway of Hematopoeisis and Cancer Predisposition.- 5. Ribosomopathies Through a Diamond Lens.- 6. Dyskeratosis Congenita and the Telomere Biology Disorders.- 7. Diamond Blackfan Anemia.- 8. Shwachman-Diamond Syndrome.- 9. Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation for the Treatment of Patients with Bone Marrow Failure Syndromes.- 10. Inherited Neutropenias and Their Insights into Cellular and Developmental Biology.- 11. Inherited Thrombocytopenias.

Gary M Kupfer, MD, is Professor of Pediatrics and Pathology, Chief, Section of Hematology-Oncology, Assistant Director for Pediatric Oncology, Smilow Cancer Center, and Director of the Yale Hematology Treatment Center, Yale University School of Medicine.  He graduated from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, completed a residency in pediatrics at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia at the University of Pennsylvania, and trained as a fellow in pediatric hematology-oncology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Children's Hospital, Boston, at Harvard University.  After serving as instructor at Harvard, Dr Kupfer opened his own laboratory as a junior faculty at the University of Virginia, working on DNA repair, hematopoiesis, and applied therapeutics, before moving his operation to Yale in 2007.  He has authored more than 50 articles, mostly focused on the basic science of DNA repair and genomic instability, using Fanconi anemia as a geneticmodel.  Dr Kupfer is active in the American Society of Hematology, reviews regularly for numerous journals, including BLOOD, and study sections for the NIH, St Baldrick's, and Alex Lemonade Stand Grants.  He also serves on boards of trustees at home, such as The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp, as well as advisory groups internationally, such as in Israel and the Republic of Georgia.


Gregory H. Reaman, M.D. joined the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, Office of New Drugs, U.S. Food and Drug Administration as the Associate Director of the Office of Oncology Drug Products in 2011. He is the Founding and Immediate Past Chair of the Children's Oncology Group (COG) having served in this capacity from 2000 through 2010. The COG is comprised of over 200 member institutions, dedicated to clinical, translational, and epidemiology research in childhood cancer. He is a Professor of Pediatrics at The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciencesand