In the article entitled Clinical effect of increasing doses of lenalidomide in high-risk myelodysplastic syndrome and acute myeloid leukemia with chromosome 5 abnormalities by Lars Möllgård, Leonie Saft, Marianne Bach Treppendahl, et al. published in Haematologica 2011; 96:963–971 the name of one of the authors has been misspelled: E.H. Lindberg must read as E. Hellström-Lindberg. Our apologizes to the author.