Cristina Lo Celso

Imperial College London, UK

Cristina Lo Celso pioneered intravital microscopy of the haematopoietic stem cell (HSC) niche during her postdoctoral training at Harvard University. In 2009 she started her independent research group at Imperial College London, where she is now a Professor in the Department of Life Sciences, and one of the network leads of the Imperial Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Network. Prof. Lo Celso established a satellite laboratory at the Sir Francis Crick Institute, and recently started the Co-Directorship of the Imperial College Centre for Haematology. Her research aims to understand the mechanisms regulating HSC function during steady state and during stresses such as infections, leukaemia and transplantation. Her interdisciplinary approach combines mouse bone marrow intravital microscopy techniques, computational image analysis, molecular profiling and mathematical modelling of the HSC niche. Prof. Lo Celso’s publications have been cited over 5500 times. She is the first woman to have received the Foulkes Medal award (2017); she received the ISEH New Investigator award in 2017, presented the DGZ Carl Zeiss Lecture 2018 and received the Royal Microscopical Society Life Sciences Medal 2019. She regularly engages in outreach activities and is keen to interact with the public, patients and industry.