EHA President. Hématologie chez Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades  et Université Paris
 

Graduated in Medicine in 1975 from Newcastle-Upon-Tyne University, UK. After internal medical (FRCP) and clinical/laboratory hematology training at University College London (FRCPath and MD) she did her PhD at St. Louis Hospital, Paris, on pediatric T-Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) (1987-89) and a Post-Doctoral period at Harvard, studying oncogenic/immunogenetic interactions in T-ALL (1990-1992). She was appointed assistant Professor in Diagnostic Hematology at Paris Descartes University in 1992, full professor in 1997, and Head of the Hematology Laboratory at Necker–Enfants Malades Hospital from 1999-2018.