Michelle Kenyon is a Consultant Nurse in haematopoietic stem cell transplantation, whose interests focus on improving the patient and caregiver experience during haematopoietic stem cell transplantation and supporting patients throughout their post-transplant recovery. Her research and service development interests centre on patient experience, psychosocial issues, treatment consequences and the unmet needs of those living with and beyond their diagnosis. Her role also enables her to lead a team and teach regularly. As current President of the European Blood and Marrow Transplant (EBMT) Nurses’ Group, she has a strong commitment to delivering education for nurses both nationally and internationally to benefit patient care. Michelle has authored two patient information books, which are used as the basis for informed consent for transplant recipients throughout the UK, and she is Co-editor of the first EBMT Textbook for Nurses, the second edition of which was published in 2023.

Dr Daniele Avenoso is a consultant haematologist in stem cell transplantation at King’s College Hospital. After his medical degree in Genoa (Italy) in 2011 at University of Genoa, he started his specialty training in haematology at the same University and obtained his CCT in 2017. He spent a year of his specialty training at Hammersmith Hospital in London (UK). Since 2017 he worked as stem cell transplant consultant in Italy, and he moved to King’s College Hospital in 2019 accepting a consultant position in BMT and ambulatory care. In 2020 he obtained his PhD in translation haematology (research project in miRNA and MDS). He is a member of the ALWP and CMWP of the EBMT and is interested in clinical trials in transplantation. His research area focuses on GVHD, alternative donors and new conditioning regimens.