Anna Falanga, MD, is full professor of Hematology at University of Milan Bicocca and Chief of the Department of Immunohematology and Transfusion Medicine and the Thrombosis and Hemostasis Center, at the Hospital Papa Giovanni XXIII, in Bergamo, Italy. She has authored more than 300 publications and is guest editor of 21 volumes. She is an expert in the field of cancer and thrombosis.

Anna Falanga has an active role in several professional societies, including the International Society of Thrombosis and Haemostasis (ISTH), the European Hematology Association (EHA), the Italian Society of Thrombosis and Hemostasis (SISET), the Italian Society of Hematology (SIE). She received the BACH Investigator Award of the ISTH (2009), and the “Harold R. Roberts Medal 2015” of the SSC of ISTH (2015).