We are proud to announce that a PhD student at the University of Iceland and a member of the iStopMM team Jón Þórir Óskarsson was awarded the IMS Young Investigator Award for Exemplary Abstract at the 19th International Myeloma Society Annual Meeting in Los Angeles for the abstract: Detection of Abnormal Plasma Cells by Multiparameter Flow Cytometry in a Screened Cohort of Patients with Monoclonal Gammopathy of Undetermined Significance. Through the Young Investigator Awards, the IMS provides travel grants to young myeloma researchers to assist with expenses related to their participation at their annual meetings.
Prevalence of multiple myeloma precursors revealed for the first time with iStopMM results
Researchers at iStopMM have for the first time described the prevalence of smoldering multiple myeloma and the findings indicate that it is present in 0.5%