Midostaurin Access Program for Newly Diagnosed FLT3 (ITD or TKD) Mutated AML Adult Patients Eligible for Standard Induction and Consolidation Chemotherapy

Inclusion Criteria:

Written informed consent must be obtained prior to any screening procedures. Patients must meet all Inclusion Criteria:

* Patient is able to communicate well with the investigator, to understand and comply with the requirements of the study.
* Patients must be 18 years of age or older; elderly patients must be fit to receive intensive induction and consolidation chemotherapy
* Patients must have a documented FLT3 mutation (ITD or TKD)
* Patients must have an ECOG Performance Status of ≤ 2
* Patients must have a documented unequivocal diagnosis of AML according to WHO 2008 classification (\>20% blasts in the bone marrow and/or peripheral blood), excluding M3 (acute promyelocytic leukemia).
* Patients requiring intrathecal chemotherapy must have a minimum washout of 48 hours prior to the first dose of midostaurin
* AML patients with a history of antecedent treatment for myelodysplasia (MDS), e.g. azacitidine or decitabine, remain eligible for treatment on this study. These agents must have been discontinued for a period of at least 30 days or 5 half-lives of the drug (whichever is greater) before midostaurin can be administered.
* Secondary AML, e.g. patients with antecedent history of treatment for prior malignancy Patients must have the following laboratory values (Direct Bilirubin ≤ 2.5 x ULN, Serum Creatinine ≤ 2.5 x ULN)

Exclusion Criteria:

Patients eligible for this study must not meet any of the following criteria:

* Prior therapy for AML with the following exceptions: (emergency leukapheresis, emergency treatment for hyperleukocytosis with hydroxyurea for ≤ 5 days, cranial RT for CNS leukostasis (one dose only), growth factor/cytokine support)
* Patients with LVEF less than 45% (by echocardiogram or MUGA) or symptomatic congestive heart failure, Class III or IV according to New York Heart Association (NYHA) classification
* Patients with any uncontrolled illness, including, but not limited to, acute or chronic pancreatitis or uncontrolled infection
* QTc \>500 msec on screening ECG. History of hypersensitivity to any drugs or metabolites of similar chemical classes as the IMP.
* Participation in a prior investigational interventional (drug) study with administration of the investigational product within 30 days or 5 half-lives of the investigational product, whichever is longer.
* Women of child-bearing potential, defined as all women physiologically capable of becoming pregnant, including women whose career, lifestyle, or sexual orientation precludes intercourse with a male partner and women whose partners have been sterilized by vasectomy or other means, UNLESS they are using two birth control methods.
* Sexually active males should not father a child during this study and for upto 5 months following.