Prof. Dr. Teresa Marafioti is a consultant histopathologist at UCL Hospitals. She studied medicine and surgery at the University of Messina (Italy) and trained as a pathologist at the Department of Pathology (University of Messina). She sub-specialised in haematopathology at the Institut fur Pathologie (Free University, Berlin) where she worked as a clinical lecturer from 1994 to 2000. From 2001 to 2009, she joined the team of the late Prof David Y Mason (LRF Immunodiagnostics Unit, NDCLS, Oxford University) and she was responsible for a study focused on the characterization of intracellular molecules to identify novel biomarkers for lymphoma and leukemia diagnostics and potential targets for cancer personalized therapy. Since 2010, she has worked at University College London. She is a full-time professor of haematopathology. She is a fully registered medical practitioner with specialist registration (General Medical Council, UK), a member of the Department of pathology biomedical executive research committee at UCL, a fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists and Royal Society of Medicine, a member of the British Lymphoma Pathology Group (BLPG), the European Association of Haematopathology (EAHP), the International Academy of Pathology (IAP) and the LYSA (The Lymphoma Study Association). Her research interests include haematopathology, immunology, molecular pathology, and clinical hematology.