Annalisa Ruggeri MD, PhD

Dr. Annalisa Ruggeri received her Medical degree from the University of Messina Medical School, Italy, in 2004. She completed her Hematology residency at the San Raffaele Vita-Salute University, Milano, Italy in 2008. In 2014 she was awarded a Ph.D. in Hematologic Research by the University of Tor Vergata, Roma, Italy. In addition, Annalisa also completed university training (D.U.) in Clinical Research Statistics and Methodology at the Pierre and Marie Curie University and Clinical Research Project Coordination at the University Paris Diderot, both in Paris, France. 

From 2006 through 2007 Annalisa worked as a junior physician in the San Raffaele Hospital in Milano, Italy. In 2007 she was awarded the EBMT-AMGEN fellowship and completed one year of training at the Hospital Saint Louis, Paris, France (Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplant Unit and Eurocord). 

Since 2007, Annalisa has been working at Eurocord as a Research Physician where she coordinates the research staff and actively participates in the clinical studies performed at Eurocord. Recently, Annalisa has also joined the Bone Marrow Transplant team at the Saint Antoine Hospital in Paris, France where she works as a staff physician while continuing her research activities with Eurocord. 

Annalisa has participated as a speaker at many international conferences and she is an active member of the European Hematology Association, the “Societe Française de Greffe de Moelle et Therapie Cellulaire” and the European Bone Marrow Transplantation group, from which she is the Chair of the Cord Blood Committee since 2014.