Ask the Experts: Targeting Notch signaling in graft-versus-host disease

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Dr Ivan Maillard is a hematologist and a physician–scientist with an interest in the regulation of blood-forming stem cells and bone marrow transplantation. Born and raised in Switzerland, he earned his MD at the University of Lausanne (Lausanne, Switzerland) and a PhD in Immunology from the MD–PhD program of the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences. He subsequently completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania (PA, USA), where he also worked as an Instructor in Medicine and physician in Hematology–Oncology. Dr Maillard joined the University of Michigan (MI, USA) in 2007 where he is affiliated with the Center for Stem Cell Biology at the Life Sciences Institute, as well as with the Division of Hematology–Oncology in the Department of Medicine and the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology. Besides his research interests, Dr Maillard maintains an active clinical practice in the care of patients with cancers of the blood and lymphatic system.