Argiris Symeonidis is professor of hematology and Head of the Division in the University of Patras, President of the Hellenic MDS Study Group, founder of the Hellenic National MDS Registry, vice president of the EHA Task Force for Gaucher Disease, member of the Steering Committee of the European MDS Registry, the Hellenic Society of Hematology, the EHA, ASH, EBMT, ELN, EWGGD, and contact person/responsible physician of the Patras Center of Excellence for MDS. He has been a faculty member in about 190 scientific events and has written 5 book chapters, 11 full reviews in international journals, and 46 in Greek journals. He participates in 245 original presentations to local and 365 international events, is a reviewer in 34 hematological journals, and is an author in 156 publications, with a cumulated impact factor of 1092.08 (average 7.33 per publication), which have received about 6200 citations (H-index 45). Among his major topics of interest are anemia and erythropoiesis, iron metabolism, myelodysplastic syndromes, hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation and cell therapies, invasive fungal infections, multiple myeloma, and Gaucher disease.