Franco Locatelli

Franco Locatelli is one of Europe's most influential pediatric hematologist-oncologists, leading groundbreaking work in haploidentical transplantation and allogeneic CAR-T cell therapy at Bambino Gesu Children's Hospital in Rome. His innovations in T cell-depleted haploidentical transplantation have made this approach a standard option for children without matched donors. He has led European clinical trials of both autologous and allogeneic CAR-T products and contributed to regulatory frameworks for cell therapy in the European Union.