Centre for Haematology

The Centre for Haematology is headed by Professor Jane Apperley. The Centre currently comprises twenty seven senior staff, of whom seven are professors and twenty are readers and senior lecturers.

The research interests span a wide range, as is appropriate to a relatively large group; they include:

• leukaemia, especially chronic myeloid leukaemia
• lymphoma
• myeloma
• abnormalities of fetal haematology
• haemophilia
• thrombophilia
• T-cell receptors and signalling pathways
• and all aspects of allogeneic
• autologous haemopoietic stem cell transplantation

The Centre contributes to both undergraduate and postgraduate medical education within the Imperial College Faculty of Medicine and also runs several popular short courses.

Clinical Collaborations

The Academic Centre is fully integrated with the NHS Haematology Departments at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. Haematology forms one of the themes of the Biomedical Research Centre and our goals of clinical excellence and translational medicine are fully integrated into those of the Academic Health Science Centre.