Eleftheria Hatzimichael, MD, PhD, is a Haematologist with a strong background and research activities in epigenetics and translational research and is currently an Associate Professor of Haematology in the Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Ioannina Greece. She graduated from the School of Medicine, University of Ioannina, in 1998 and was trained in Haematology at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, Barts and the London Trust, London, UK, and the Department of Haematology, University Hospital of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece. She was awarded a prestigious early-carrier one-year fellowship from the Hellenic Society of Haematology Foundation to work with Dr Isidore Rigoutsos as a Visiting Scientist at the Computational Medicine Centre, Jefferson Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, US, in the field of the non-coding human genome by computational and experimental approaches. She has also received the Clinical Research Training in Haematology award 2016-2017 by the European Haematology Association, 9-month-long unique training and mentoring experience focused on clinical research in Europe, with a global scope. She is the PI in more than 30 phase II-IV clinical trials, a sub-investigator in > 25 phase clinical trials, and a reviewer for 32 journals. She is a member of the Associate Editorial Board of the American Journal of Blood Research, a member of the Editorial Board of Diseases, and an Associate Editor for Frontiers in Medicine.