Eliane Gluckman

Department of Hematology, Hopital St. Louis, France

Eliane Gluckman

Academic positions:
- Professor of Hematology
- Head of the Department of Bone Marrow Transplantation at the Hôpital Saint-Louis
- Head of Hematology, Oncology Department Hôpital Saint-Louis, Paris
- Head of laboratory for clinical research in cell therapy, University Paris VII

All commercial positions (in last five years):
None declared

Research interests:
Professor Gluckman has established a reputation as a leading physician and researcher. She has been conducting stem cell transplantations for over 30 years and performed the first ever successful umbilical cord transplantation on a patient suffering from Fanconi anemia. Today, her research remains focused on the transplantation of umbilical cord blood and congenital bone marrow failure.

Any other information:
Professor Gluckman is President of the Ecole Européenne d'Hématologie and a member of the Board of the International Society for Experimental Hematology, the American Society of Hematology and the American Society of blood and marrow transplantation.

She is the founder and former President of the European Group for blood and marrow transplantation (EBMT). Within the EBMT, Professor Gluckman was also chairman of the Immunobiology Working Party.

Professor Gluckman has received a number of awards and honours, including the Ham-Wasserman-Lecture of the American Society of Hematology in 2001. She has been awarded the Légion d'honneur and the Ordre du mérité in France and was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Basel in 2005.

Any competing interests declared are displayed with individual evaluations.

Head of Faculty: Hematology (since 16 November 2005)

Eliane Gluckman is a Head of Faculty for the HEMATOLOGY Faculty. The role of a Head of Faculty is to help divide the Faculty (specialty) into Sections (sub-specialty areas), nominate leaders in those areas as Section Heads, and offer ongoing advice on the strategic direction of the service. They are not asked to evaluate articles, although we do, of course, welcome them.

Links

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