Chronic Myeloid Leukemia

JORGE CORTES is Deputy Chair, Department of Leukemia, and Professor of Medicine, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas. A member of several medical societies, Dr. Cortes has served as a lecturer and the author/co-author of over 300 medical publications and abstracts and has greatly contributed to the search for effective treatments for leukemias. Dr. Cortes is the recipient of a variety of awards including the Merit Award (1995) from American Society of Clinical Oncology, the Upjohn Outstanding Research Award (1995) from M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, and was recently a Clinical Research Scholar for the Leukemia Lymphoma Society. Dr. Cortes is the recipient of the Faculty Scholar Award from M.D. Anderson (2003), and the Celgene Young Investigator Award (2005).

MICHAEL DEININGER is Scientific Director of the CML Basic Research Program and Assistant Professor, Center for Hematologic Malignancies, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland. Dr. Deininger is a member of the American Society of Hematology and the American Society of Clinical Oncology. He received the M.D. degree from the University of Wuerzburg, Germany, and the Ph.D. degree from Imperial College, London. He has published numerous research and scholarly articles in peer-reviewed journals, covering molecular and clinical aspects of CML, and serves as a peer reviewer for Blood, Nature Genetics, The Lancet, Cancer Research, and other professional journals. Dr. Deininger's honors include scholarships from the German Scholarship Foundation and the American Society of Hematology.