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About me

Josu de la Fuente is Consultant Haematologist & Director of the Paediatric BMT Programme at Imperial College London Healthcare NHS Trust and and Professor of Practice (Gene and Cellular Therapy) at Imperial College London.
Professor de la Fuente completed his general training in paediatrics in different hospitals in London and following membership of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, he trained in haematology at Imperial College and Great Ormond Street Hospital achieving membership of the Royal College of Pathologists. During this time he developed an interest in red cell
disorders, bone marrow failure and
transplantation. After a period of research in human developmental haemopoiesis as an MRC Clinical Research Fellow leading to a PhD, he was appointed to lead the paediatric BMT programme at Imperial College Healthcare, which specialises in transplantation for haemoglobinopathies and bone marrow failure, and has been innovative in the use of alternative donors, particularly haploidentical transplantation, and gene therapy and editing. He has also developed a unique clinical and research programme for Diamond Blackfan anaemia patients.

He is the vicechair of Paediatric Diseases Working Party of European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation, a co-director of the VGC2 consortium, a member of the steering committee of the BMT CTN 1507 trial and a chief investigator and adviser of gene editing and therapy trials for thalassemia and sickle cell disease, and novel agents for red cell disorders.

Areas of interest

Paediatric Haematology: general haematology (blood disorders) from birth to 19 years of age including anaemia, neutropenia, thrombocytopenia and clotting/bleeding disorders and thrombosis, and disorder presenting in infancy; iron deficiency; vitamin B12 and folate deficiency; haemoglobinopathies: sickle cell disease, thalassemia and alternative haemoglobins; immune thrombocytopenia, autoimmune haemolytic anaemia and autoimmune neutropenia; bone marrow failure: Diamond Blackfan anaemia, Fanconi anaemia, dyskeratosis congenita and aplastic anaemia; bone marrow biopsy; bone marrow transplants and gene therapy.

Medical secretaries

• Professor J de la Fuente at St Mary's Hospital
• Department of Paediatrics St. Mary's Hospital Praed Street London W2 1NY
• 020 3312 1938
• julie.mason29@nhs.net

• Professor J de la Fuente at The Portland
• The Portland Hospital 2nd Floor 215 Great Portland Street London W1W 5PN
• 020 7034 8324
• 07717 741734
• 01295 983031
• pa.delafuente@hcahealthcare.co.uk