Joan-lluis Vives Corrons MD

Joan-Lluis Vives Corrons is a Professor of Medicine (1976-present) and Head of the Red Blood Cell Pathology Unit (1997 –present) at the Hospital Clinic i Provincial (University of Barcelona), with main activity focused on the diagnosis of RBC defects and in the identification of low prevalence anaemias or “Rare Anaemias”. Research has mainly based on physiopathology, molecular mechanisms and epidemiology of red blood cell (RBC) disorders due to hereditary enzymopathies (G6PD, PK and others), haemoglobinopathies (Sickle-cell anaemia and thalassaemias) and membrane defects.