Scientific Advisory Board

Eliane Gluckman

Hematologist, Saint Louis Hospital, Paris

Eliane Gluckman, MD, is internationally recognised for her longstanding contributions to the advances in Bone Marrow and Cord Blood transplantation, several times awarded in this field. Pr. Gluckman is a founding member and former president of the European Group for Bone Marrow Transplantation. She is the founder and current president of EUROCORD.

Vanderson Rocha

Hematologist, Oxford Churchill Hospital, Sírio Libanês Hospital, São Paulo

Vanderson Rocha is the Director of the Hematology, Hemotherapy and Cell Therapy Service of the ICHC Medical Clinic Division I and Medical Coordinator of the Hematologic Diseases and Bone Marrow Transplantation Unit of the Sírio Libanês Hospital. Abroad he teaches hematology at Churchill Hospital – Oxford University Hospitals – NHS Trust (UK). He is Chairman of the Pró-Sangue Foundation.

James Di Santo

Immunologist, Pasteur Institute, Paris

James Di Santo received a MD/PhD from Cornell University Medical College and the Memorial Sloan–Kettering Cancer Center. He directed the Immunology Department of Pasteur Institute from 2002 to 2006. His research interests include defining the role of cytokines in lymphoid development and understanding the differentiation of natural killer cells and other innate lymphoid cells.