orcid.org/0000-0002-7840-4414 H INDEX (scopus): 31. DESCRIPTION OF PRESENT APPOINTMENT Giuseppe Francesco Milone is a physician in charge of the Bone Marrow Transplant Unit of the Department of the Hematology, University of Catania. In the present position, he leads a team of six medical doctors (three staff physicians and three fellows), ten nurses, one transplant coordinator, and three biologists. The Unit has a clinical section, a harvest center, and a laboratory for bone marrow manipulation and cryopreservation. The clinical section has six HEPA-filtered single-bed rooms and an outpatient section dedicated to BMT patients. SCIENTIFIC ACHIEVEMENT He is a national opinion leader for the use of PLERIXAFOR. He proposed and completed two multicenter trials on the use of this agent. He is a national opinion leader on graft-versus-host diseases. He participated in multicenter trials on the treatments of these diseases. QUALIFICATIONS: In 1988, he passed the USA test “Educational Commission Foreigner Medical Graduates” certification examinations (basic sciences (part I) and clinical science (part II) and an English language test). In 1989, he passed the Italian national examination as Head of Hematology. In 2018, he passed the national scientific examination as Full Professor of Hematology. He qualified as an inspector in the European Society for Quality in Cell Therapy and Transplantation (JACIE).