Professor Ghulam J Mufti is one of the founding members of The MDS Foundation Inc. He is also the head of the department of hematological medicine at Guy’s, King’s, and St Thomas’s hospitals, King’s College London, with a team of 13 professors, 6 senior lecturers/lecturers, and approximately 100+ research staff. In addition, Professor Mufti is a non-executive director of King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and was awarded an Officer of the Order of British Empire (OBE) in the Queen’s New Year honors list in January 2017.
Professor Ghulam Mufti has extensive clinical and research expertise in leukemias, lymphomas, and in particular myelodysplastic syndromes, for which he is internationally renowned. His particular area of research has focused on molecular aberrations in MDS/AML and the identification of novel therapies that include gene and cell-based therapies. He has published 500+ papers (H-Index: 78, I-Index: 11) and chapters in scientific journals and textbooks on leukemias /MDS and bone marrow failure syndromes.