Dr Nicolas Boissel is head of the adolescent and young adults unit, Department of Hematology, Hôpital Saint-Louis in Paris, France, and professor of medicine at Université de Paris. After beginning his career as a research fellow at the Pasteur Institute and as an intern at Paris Municipal Hospitals, he completed a PhD at the Department of Immunology at Saint-Louis Hospital in 2002 while completing his MD at the Université de Paris. In 2005, he went on to become assistant professor at Hôpital Saint-Louis in the acute leukemia unit, before taking up his current position in 2010.

Dr Boissel is engaged in therapeutics for patients with bone marrow disorders, including acute leukemia, lymphoma, and aplastic anemia, with a specific focus on adolescent and young adult comprehensive care. His clinical research interests include the role of new oncogenic events and minimal residual disease to stratify therapeutic approaches in acute, as well as the development of immunotherapy in the field. He is involved in many trials designed to improve the outcome of acute leukemia patients. He is chairman of the Group for Research on Adult Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia and of the French Onco-hematology Group for Adolescents and Young Adults (GO-AJA).