Prof. Anna Rita Migliaccio earned a PhD in Natural Science (1975) and a PhD in Biological Science (1977) from the University of Naples. From 1978 to 1981, she pursued a Post-Doctorate at the University of Naples. From 1982 to 1983, she pursued a Post-Doctorate at EURATOM, TNO, Rijswijk, The Netherlands. From 1989 to 1997, she collaborated in various forms with Dr. Adamson (First as a fellow at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA, and then as an associate member and co-director of the Hematopoietic Growth Factors laboratory at the New York Blood Center, New York, NY). At the Blood Center, she was responsible for developing criteria for quality control of cord blood units used for the first 500 allogeneic stem cell transplantations in children. She established her first independent laboratory in 1998 at Istituto Superiore di Sanita’, Rome, Italy. One of her scientific accomplishments as an independent investigator was identifying mice carrying the hypomorphic Gata1low mutation develop myelofibrosis. This discovery led to her inclusion in the first submission of the PPG on MPN-RC by Ron Hoffman in 2003, continuously funded by the NCI since 2006. From 2014 to 2011, she worked as a Full Professor of "Chiara Fama” in Histology and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Bologna, Italy. Now, she is a Senior Investigator at the Altius Institute for Biomedical Sciences Seattle, USA, and Professor of Histology and Embryology, Università Campus Bio-Medico, Roma, Italy.