Junia Vaz De Melo MD, PhD

Junia V. Melo is Professor of Molecular Haematology at Imperial College London. She graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, U.F.M.G. (Brazil) in 1974, and earned her PhD from the Royal Postgraduate Medical School (RPMS), University of London in 1986. She did her first post-doctoral training at Flinders Medical Centre in Adelaide, Australia, after which she was invited to re-join the RPMS as a team leader in Professor John Goldman’s adult leukaemia research group in 1990. Her main research interests focus on the molecular biology and cell kinetics of chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML) and related myeloproliferative disorders, and in identifying new molecular targets for the treatment of these diseases. Presently she leads a team of 13 biomedical scientists working on interrelated projects regarding CML and targeted therapy. Professor Melo is Member of the Editorial Boards of ‘Blood’, and ‘Genes, Chromosomes & Cancer’, of the American Society of Hematology (ASH) and a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists (FRCPath).