20^th World Hematology Congress

Biography

Joan-LLuis Vives Corrons is Emeritus Professor of the University of Barcelona and Group Leader of the Rare Anemias Unit at the Institute for Leukaemia Research Josep Carreras in Catalonia. He has been the Head of the Haematology Department at the Hospital Clinic of Barcelona from 1976 to 1996, and the founder of the Red Blood Cell Pathology Unit from 1997 to 2016 . This Unit is the largest referral center for the diagnosis of anemias , congenital and acquired. Research activity has been focused on the hereditary red blood cell defects (enzymopathies, hemoglobinopathies , membranopathies and CDA). He developed a fellowship in Paris,France (Haematology Department of Hôpital Beaujon) and in la Jolla California, USA (Scripps Research Institute, Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine). Prof. Vives Corrons has published more than 600 professional papers and reviews and has edited three books on hematology and rare anemias.

Research Interest

Red Blood Cells, Anemia