Dr. Karina Tozatto-Maio is a clinical hematologist and researcher. She holds a double Ph.D. from the Université de Paris, France, and Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil (2019), a medicine degree from the Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil (2009), and completed her medical residency in Hematology at the Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil (2015). From 2016 to 2018, she lived in Paris and joined the Eurocord team as a research physician, developing her thesis work under the supervision of Professor Eliane Gluckman. Currently, she works as an attending physician at the Department of Hematology of the Hospital das Clínicas da Universidade de São Paulo and as a research physician at the Education and Research Institute of the Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, São Paulo, Brazil. She also keeps an active collaboration in research with Eurocord.