A graduate of the Medical School of the University of Lisbon (1988), João Forjaz de Lacerda completed his training in Hematology and Bone Marrow Transplantation at Hospital de Santa Maria, in Lisbon, and at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, in New York (1995). He earned his PhD and Habilitation degrees from the University of Lisbon in 1998 and 2007, respectively. João Forjaz de Lacerda currently holds the following positions: Senior Attending Physician and Head of the Hematology and Bone Marrow Transplant Service of ULS Santa Maria (https://www.ulssm.min-saude.pt), Full Professor of Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon (https://www.medicina.ulisboa.pt), Group Leader at GIMM-Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine (https://gimm.pt). He is Past-President the Ethics Committee and Vice-President of the Clinical Research Center of Lisbon Academic Medical Center. He has published in the most prominent journals in the Hematology field.