Luca Vago, is Associate Professor at the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University and a physician scientist at IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele, heading the Unit of Immunogenetics, Leukemia Genomics and Immunobiology and performing clinical duty in the Hematology and Bone Marrow Transplantation Unit. He graduated at Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, where he also achieved his PhD in Molecular Medicine and Clinical Board in Hematology. From 2008 to 2009 he has been a visiting scholar at the Department of Structural Biology of Stanford University. Both his clinical and research activities are focused on the immunobiology of leukemia in the model setting of allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation, and in particular on the mechanisms of leukemia immune escape and relapse. His main contributions to science relate to the description of the mechanisms by which leukemia reappears after transplantation, to dissecting the clinical correlates of Natural Killer cell reconstitution upon transplantation, and to the development of new cutting-edge molecular methods to improve the early detection of leukemia recurrence.

He is author of more than 92 scientific articles and reviews on international peer-reviewed journals, with an h index of 35. He is Chair of the Scientific Committee and Member of the Executive Committee of the European Federation for Immunogenetics (EFI), member of Scientific Committee on Immunology and Host Defense of the American Society of Hematology (ASH), member of the Advisory Committee of the Center for International Blood & Marrow Transplant Research (CIBMTR) and Senior Board Member of the Cellular Therapy and Immunobiology Working Party (CTIWP) of the Europoean Group for Bone Marrow Transplantation (EBMT).

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