Lodz,
Rectorate of Medical University (Main Hall),
November 19th (Friday),
13:00
Programme:
APPROPRIATE AND INAPPROPRIATE ANALYSES
OF DATA
FROM MEDICAL RESEARCH
Rectorate of Medical
University of Lodz
4 Kosciuszki Ave.
90-419 Lodz
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Ryszard
Szydło,
PhD (Biology), MSc (Medical Statistics)
Since 1989 has worked in the Department of
Haematology at the Hammersmith Hospital , London - first
under Prof. John
Goldman (world expert on CML) and now under Prof. Jane Apperley
(current president of the EBMT). Collaborates
with clinicians and scientists in the department, and with
colleagues nationally and internationally working on
the biology and treatment of haematologic disorders. Core
research interests include stem cell transplantation for
chronic myeloid leukaemia, the use of donor lymphocyte
infusions for the treatment of disease relapse, the monitoring
of minimal residual disease by PCR, bone marker studies in
multiple myeloma, and methodological studies for the analysis
of survival data. Invited speaker to national and international
conferences, and author and co-author of nearly 80 publications
(with the majority in Blood, the British Journal of Haematology
and Bone Marrow Transplantation). Selected recent publications
include: 1) E Terpos , RM Szydlo et al "Soluble receptor
activator of nuclear factor kB ligand >(RANKL)/osteoprotegerin
(OPG) ratio predicts survival in multiple myeloma. Proposal
for a novel prognostic index", Blood , 2003 Aug 1,102(3):
1064 -1069; 2)D Marin, S Marktel , RM Szydlo, et al "Survival
of patients with chronic-phase chronic myeloid leukaemia
on imatinib after failure of interferon alfa", Lancet , 2003
Aug 23, 362 (9384):617-9; 3)RM Szydlo. "Statistical
Evaluation of HSCT Data" in Haemopoietic Stem Cell
Transplantaion, The ESH/EBMT, 2004 Revised Edition, (eds:
Apperley, Careras, Gluckman, Gratwohl, Masszi), May,
2004; 4)T Vulliamy, A Marrone, RM Szydlo, A Walne, P
Mason and I Dokal. "Disease anticipation is associated
with progressive telomere shortening in families with
mutations in the RNA component of telomerase", Nature
Genetics , 2004 May; 36 (5): 447-9.
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