Day 1, Thursday, May 15th
08:15-08:30 Welcome Coffee
08:30-08:50 COMy 2025 kick-off: Welcome by the Congress Co-Chairs
08:50-10:20 Session 1: Advances in biology I
Moderators: Eileen Boyle, USA; Paola Neri, Canada
08:50-09:05 WGS: Samur Mehmet, USA
09:05-09:20 Clonal diversity: Joaquín Martínez López, Spain
09:20-09:35 Circulating tumor cells and DNA: Andrew Spencer, Australia
09:35-09:50 sBCMA and non-T cell factors: Marc Raab, Germany
09:50-10:05 Mass spectrometry: Noemi Puig, Spain
10:05-10:20 Discussion: All session faculty and Nizar Bahlis, Canada
10:20-11:20 Session 2: IMS Session
Moderators: Philippe Moreau, France; Nikhil Munshi, USA
10:20-10:40 Does adaptation in MM: María-Victoria Mateos, Spain
10:40-11:00 Real-world evidence vs pivotal trials for approval: Philippe Moreau, France
11:00-11:20 Discussion
11:20-11:40 Coffee Break
11:40-13:10 Session 3: How do I assess?
Moderators: Joan Bladé, Spain; Heinz Ludwig, Austria
11:40-11:55 AI individualized risk classifier: Francesco Maura, USA
11:55-12:10 Disease response: Shaji Kumar, USA
12:10-12:25 Imaging: Elena Zamagni, Italy
12:25-12:40 Disease risk: Jill Corre, France
12:40-12:55 From detection to decision: the status of MGUS screening:
Sigurdur Kristinsson, Iceland
12:55-13:10 Discussion: All session faculty and Paola Neri, Canada, Enrique Ocio, Spain
13:10-13:40 Lunch Break
13:40-15:10 Opposite sides of the spectrum: individualising treatment from the fittest to the frailest in NDMM
Industry-supported Lunch Symposium
15:10-15:20 Technical Break
15:20-16:20 Session 4: Advances in biology II
Moderators: Malin Hultcrantz, USA; Michael O’Dwyer, Ireland
15:20-15:35 Protein degraders: Robert Orlowski, USA
15:35-15:50 The unanswered science of myeloma: Keith Stewart, Canada
15:50-16:05 Next generation CAR constructs: Noopur Raje, USA
16:05-16:20 Discussion: All session faculty and Faith Davies, USA
16:20-16:40 Coffee Break
16:40-18:10 Unmet Needs in Relapsed/Refractory Multiple Myeloma: Considering a BCMA-Directed Bispecific
Industry-supported Afternoon Symposium
18:10-18:20 Technical Break
18:20-19:00 Session 5: Plenary lectures I
Moderators: Gareth Morgan, USA; Charlotte Pawlyn, UK
18:20-18:40 From Thalidomide to CelMods: a clinical journey: Meletios Dimopoulos, Greece
18:40-19:00 Genomics to personalize therapy: Nikhil Munshi, USA
19:00-19:30 Session 6: The COMy Debate: treatment of smoldering myeloma
Moderators: María-Victoria Mateos, Spain; Philippe Moreau, France
19:00-19:10 YES: Irene Ghobrial, USA
19:10-19:20 NO: Hervé Avet-Loiseau, France
19:20-19:30 Discussion: All session faculty and Claudio Cerchione, Italy, Karthik Ramasamy, UK
Day 2, Friday, May 16th
07:30-08:15 The Trinity – The balance of Safety, Efficacy, and Quality of Life in TCR RRMM treatment
Industry-supported Breakfast Symposium
08:15-08:25 Technical Break
08:25-09:35 Session 7: How do I treat? Part I
Moderators: Thierry Facon, France; Francesca Gay, Italy
08:25-08:40 Transplant-eligible patients: Aurore Perrot, France
08:40-08:55 Elderly patients: Sonja Zweegman, Netherlands
08:55-09:10 High-risk disease: Cyrille Touzeau, France
09:10-09:25 Amyloidosis: Suzanne Lentzsch, USA
09:25-09:35 Discussion: All session faculty and Martin Kaiser, UK, Alessandra Larocca, Italy
09:35-09:55 Coffee Break
09:55-11:25 Unlocking the future of T cell therapies: advancing innovation and optimising impact
Industry-supported Morning Symposium
11:25-11:35 Technical Break
11:35-12:20 Session 8
Moderators:
11:35-11:50 TBA
11:50-12:05 TBA
12:05-12:20 Discussion
12:20-12:50 Lunch Break
12:50-14:20 A puzzle in progress: Piecing together clinical trial data in NDMM
Industry-supported Lunch Symposium
14:20-14:30 Technical Break
14:30-15:15 Session 9: Next generation CAR-T cells
Moderators: Doris Hansen, USA; Mohamad Mohty, France
14:30-14:45 Why do we need newer CAR-T cell constructs? Salomon Manier, France
14:45-15:00 Results of the D-Domain BCMA-directed CAR-T construct: Binod Dhakal, USA
15:00-15:15 Discussion
15:15-16:00 Session 10: Plenary lectures II
Moderators: Bertrand Arnulf, France; Yael Cohen, Israel
15:15-15:30 The Academic CAR-T cells experience: Carlos Fernández de Larrea, Spain
15:30-15:45 Antigenic escape with T cell redirecting immunotherapies: Nizar Bahlis, Canada
15:45-16:00 Discussion: All session faculty and Javier de la Rubia, Spain, Doris Hansen, USA
16:00-16:20 Coffee Break
16:20-17:50 Innovations in Relapsed Refractory Multiple Myeloma Care: Debating the Future of Treatment Strategies
Industry-supported Afternoon Symposium
17:50-18:00 Technical Break
18:00-19:00 Session 11: Treatment of relapsed/refractory disease
Moderators: Roman Hajek, Czech Republic; Thomas Martin, USA
18:00-18:15 Management of patients after 1 prior line of therapy: María-Victoria Mateos, Spain
18:15-18:30 Management of patients triple class refractory with CAR-T cells:
Paula Rodríguez-Otero, Spain
18:30-18:45 Management of patients triple class refractory with bispecifics: Saad Usmani, USA
18:45-19:00 Discussion: All session faculty and Hermann Einsele, Germany, Cesar Rodriguez, USA
19:00-19:30 COMy Award Ceremony
Presented by the Congress Co-Chairs
Day 3, Saturday, May 17th
08:15-08:30 Good-Morning Coffee
08:30-10:20 Session 12: The ideal trial on the road to achieve the best outcome for patients
Moderators: Jean-Luc Harousseau, France; Jesús San Miguel, Spain
08:30-08:45 A US perspective: Sagar Lonial, USA
08:45-09:00 EMN perspective: Pieter Sonneveld, Netherlands
09:00-09:15 UK perspective: Kwee Yong, UK
09:15-09:30 IFM perspective in young patients: Philippe Moreau, France
09:30-09:45 IFM and Spanish perspective in elderly patients: Salomon Manier, France
09:45-10:00 German perspective: Hartmut Goldschmidt, Germany
10:00-10:20 Discussion
10:20-10:35 Coffee Break continued …
10:35-11:50 Clinical Application of clonoSEQ Testing in MM
Industry-supported Morning Symposium
11:50-12:00 Technical Break
12:00-12:45 Session 13: Hot topics
Moderators: Jean El Cheikh, Lebanon; Fernando Leal da Costa, Portugal
12:00-12:15 Fixed duration vs. continuous maintenance therapy: Paul Richardson, USA
12:15-12:30 Maintenance therapy after ASCT: Xavier Leleu, France
12:30-12:45 Discussion: All session faculty and Malin Hultcrantz, USA; Roberto Mina, Italy
12:45-13:15 Lunch Break
13:15-14:45 Breaking barriers in myeloma: exploring the potential of antibody drug conjugates
Industry-supported Lunch Symposium
14:45-14:55 Technical Break
14:55-16:10 Session 14: How do I treat? Part II
Moderators: Michel Delforge, Belgium; Albert Oriol, Spain
14:55-15:10 Extra-medullary plasmacytoma: Meral Beksaç, Turkey
15:10-15:25 Patients under dialysis: Florent Malard, France
15:25-15:40 Bone disease: Evangelos Terpos, Greece
15:40-15:55 Waldenstrom disease: Steven Treon, USA
15:55-16:10 Discussion: All session faculty and Rafat Abonour, USA, Laura Rosiñol Dachs, Spain
16:10-16:30 Coffee Break
16:30-17:15 Session 15: Treatment of advanced relapse: beyond immunotherapy
Chairs: Mohamad Mohty, France; Hans Salwender, Germany
16:30-16:45 The US experience: Joshua Richter, USA
16:45-17:00 The EU perspective: Claudio Cerchione, Italy
17:00-17:15 Discussion
17:15-18:25 Session 16: IACH special session
Moderator: Mohamad Mohty, France
17:15-17:30 Introduction to the IACH Multiple Myeloma Academy: Mohamad Mohty, France
17:30-17:50 AI for doctors: the Why, the How and the Wow: Audelia Eshel-Fuhrer, Israel
17:50-18:00 Q&A
18:00-18:15 TBA
18:15-18:25 Q&A
18:25-19:20 Session 17: Keynote lectures
Moderators: Vania Hungria, Brazil; Noor Moukalled, Lebanon
18:25-18:45 Affordable therapy algorithm: Vincent Rajkumar, USA
18:45-19:05 The future of myeloma therapy: Kenneth Anderson, USA
19:05-19:20 Discussion
19:20-19:30 COMy In-Person Conclusions by the Congress Co-Chairs
Day 4, Sunday, May 18th – ONLINE ONLY
10:00-11:30 Multiple Myeloma communications I
Moderators: TBA
10:00-10:10 Chromoanagenesis, a subtype of genome chaos, in multiple myeloma: integrating clinical data with optical genomic mapping:
Christine Ye, USA
10:10-10:20 Extramedullary myeloma is genomically complex and characterized by near-universal MAPK pathway alterations:
Saurabh Zanwar, USA
10:20-10:30 Linvoseltamab in patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma (RRMM): longer follow-up and selected high-risk subgroup analyses of the LINKER-MM1 study:
Mansi R Shah, USA
10:30-10:40 Modeling long-term progression-free survival in transplant-eligible (TE) and transplant-ineligible (TIE) newly diagnosed multiple myeloma (NDMM) treated with daratumumab, bortezomib, lenalidomide, and dexamethasone (DVRd):
Pieter Sonneveld, Netherlands
10:40-10:50 Prospective functional bone disease evaluation of newly diagnosed multiple myeloma with combined use of (18)F-FDG-PET/CT and whole-body diffusion weighted magnetic resonance:
Marco Talarico, Italy
10:50-11:00 Talquetamab (TAL) + teclistamab (TEC) in patients with triple-class exposed (TCE) relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma (RRMM): updated phase 1b results from REDIRECTT-1 with >1 year of follow-up:
Albert Oriol, Spain
11:00-11:10 Talquetamab (TAL), a GPRC5D×CD3 bispecific antibody (BsAb), in combination with daratumumab (D) and lenalidomide (R) in patients with newly diagnosed multiple myeloma (NDMM): safety and efficacy results from the phase 1b MONUMENTAL-2 study:
Aurore Perrot, France
11:10-11:30 Discussion
Break
11:40-12:45 Multiple Myeloma communications II
Moderators: TBA
11:40-11:50 Cevostamab in combination with pomalidomide and dexamethasone in patients with relapsed/ refractory multiple myeloma (RRMM): updated phase i safety run-in results from the CAMMA 1 study
Andrew Spencer, Canada
11:50-12:00 Effectiveness of bridging therapy corresponds to improved outcomes after receiving car-T therapy: phase 3 CARTITUDE-4 study of patients with relapsed, lenalidomide-refractory multiple myeloma:
Xavier Leleu, France
12:00-12:10 MAGNETISMM-3: long-term update and outcomes of less frequent dosing of elranatamab in relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma (RRMM):
TBA
12:10-12:20 Overall survival (OS) with ciltacabtagene autoleucel (CILTA-CEL) versus standard of care (SOC) in lenalidomide (LEN)-refractory multiple myeloma (MM): phase 3 CARTITUDE-4 study update:
Cyrille Touzeau, France
12:20-12:30 Phase 1, first in-human, dose escalation study of ISB 2001, a BCMAxCD38xCD3 targeting trispecific antibody in patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma (RRMM):
Amit Knot, Australia
12:30-12:45 Discussion
Conclusion and see you next year!