Prof. Evdokia Mandala received her M.D. and Ph.D. from the School of Medicine at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1986 and 1997, respectively. From 1998 to 1999, she took a position as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Academic Department of Haematology and Cytogenetics at the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR), Royal Marsden Hospital, London, UK. She has been working as an Academic and Consultant Haematologist in the Forth Department of Medicine at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Hippokration General Hospital, since 2001.