Dr Fabiana Perna is a physician-scientist focused on the pathogenesis and treatment of hematological disorders. She holds a full-time faculty position as an Associate Member and Attending Physician in the Department of Blood and Marrow Transplant and Cellular Immunotherapy at Moffitt where she runs an independent research program and sees cancer patients. Dr Perna completed clinical training as hematologist under the mentorship of Dr Bruno Rotoli leading hematologist in Italy. In 2008, she joined the laboratory of Dr Stephen Nimer at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC), where she acquired scientific skills to model myeloid malignancies with cord blood CD34+ cells.