Dear colleagues,

we are pleased to announce the “2nd Annual Florence Meeting on Myeloproliferative Neoplasms” which will be held on Saturday, April 21, 2012. This educational and research symposium is held in conjunction with the “Annual Meeting of the International Working Group for MPN Research and Treatment (IWG-MRT)”, which will be held on Sunday, April 22, 2011. As for previous year, on Friday, April 20, we will host the 2nd Patients’ Day dedicated to subjects with one of the Philadelphia-chromosome negative myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN).

The invitation to attend the Saturday meeting is open to all scientists and clinicians who are interested in getting updated on recent advances in laboratory and clinical research in MPN. The Sunday meeting is restricted to IWG-MRT members and will focus on new collaborative projects.

Both meetings are completely free of drug company support. It is the wish of our grateful patients with MPN to facilitate information exchange and collaboration on matters that are relevant to their diseases. Therefore, only academic members will be allowed to register to the meeting.

We hope you will be part of this exciting meeting and we kindly ask that you confirm your intention to attend. We will open as soon as possible a section for registering your participations. Unfortunately, because of limited space, we are able to accept approximately 120 attendees only, which will be selected on first come basis. Additional information on meeting content including topics and speakers will be forthcoming.