Lionel Adès is Professor of hematology at the Hôpital Saint-Louis, and Paris Diderot University, Paris, France. He graduated in Haematology in 2001 and then undertook training in haematology at the Avicenne Hospital and the St Louis Hospital in Paris, before taking up his current position. Pr. Adès has extensive research experience, having worked as a research fellow from 2006-2010 before graduated with a PhD in 2010. He is conducting several clinical and biological studies in myelodysplastic syndromes and acute leukemia. In these disorders, he has been very active in evaluating novel therapeutics and implementing clinical trials. His research has been published in numerous, well respected journals, including Journal of Clinical Oncology, New England Journal of Medicine and Blood. In addition, Lionel Adès is a member of the American Society of Hematology, the French Group of Myelodysplastic Syndromes (GFM), EMSCO and the ALFA Group.