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Franco Locatelli MD
Professor
IRCCS Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Gesù
Rome
Italy
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Franco Locatelli is a Full Professor of Pediatrics at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Rome and Head of the Department of Paediatric Haematology and Oncology and Cell and Gene Therapy, at the Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital in Rome. He has been the President of the Italian Association for Pediatric Haematology-Oncology AIEOP from 2004 to 2006, and served as chairman of the European EWOG-MDS consortium from 2005 to 2011. Professor Locatelli is an expert of hematological malignant and non-malignant disorders of childhood. Prof. Locatelli is the author or co-author of 1.362 peer-reviewed articles published in international journals (including New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, Nature, Nature Genetics, Nature Communications, The Lancet, etc.) with 63.597 citations and he has an H-index of 122 (Scopus source). Since February 2019 until now, Prof. Locatelli is serving as President of the National Council of Health (Consiglio Superiore di Sanità). On December 2021, he was nominated 1st Class/Knight Grand Cross (Cavaliere di Gran Croce) by the President of the Italian Republic.