Richard K. Burt, MD (www.astemcelljourney.com) is Fulbright Scholar and Professor of Medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA, and the first Autoimmune Committee Chairperson for the International Bone Marrow Transplant Registry (IBMTR). Dominique Farge, MD, PhD is Professor of Internal Medicine at Saint-Louis Hospital, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, (AP-HP), University of Paris, Paris, France; Adjunct Professor at McGill University, Montreal, Canada; and Chairperson of the European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation Autoimmune Disease Working Party from 2010 to 2016. Milton A. Ruiz, MD, PhD is former Professor at the University of São Paulo and the head coordinator of the Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Service of the Beneficência Portuguesa Hospital of São José do Rio Preto, São Paulo, Brazil. Riccardo Saccardi, MD is Director of Cellular Therapies and Transfusion Medicine Department at Careggi University Hospital in Florence, Italy and Chairperson of the European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation Autoimmune Disease Working Party from 2004 to 2010. John A. Snowden, MD is Consultant Haematologist & Director of Blood and Marrow Transplantation, Department of Haematology, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Sheffield, UK; Honorary Professor, Department of Oncology & Metabolism, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK; Honorary Clinical Professor, The Cancer Institute, Department of Haematology, University College London, UK; and Chairperson of the European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation Autoimmune Disease Working Party from 2016 to 2020.
