Silvia Montoto is a haemato-oncologist who trained at the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona in Spain. Since 2004, she has been working in the Department of Haemato-oncology at St Bartholomew’s Hospital in London, UK as a consultant haemato-oncologist with a specific interest in lymphoma.

Dr Montoto’s special fields of interest are follicular lymphoma (which was the subject of her MD(Res): ‘Study of BCL2 rearrangement and other prognostic factors in follicular lymphoma’), the management of lymphoma in patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and the role of stem-cell transplant and other cell therapies in patients with lymphoma. She is the author of around 200 papers published in peer-reviewed journals and is a regular reviewer for numerous peer-reviewed journals, international meetings and international funding bodies. She has also participated as a speaker in multiple educational programmes at international meetings (the European Society for Medical Oncology [ESMO], the European Hematology Association [EHA], the European Group for Blood and Marrow Transplantation [EBMT] and the American Society of Hematology [ASH]).