Maria Gomes da Silva is Professor of Haematology at the NOVA Medical School and a Senior Consultant in Clinical Haematology at the Haematology Department of the Portuguese Institute of Oncology in Lisbon, where she is also Head of the Haemato-Oncology Unit. She received her medical degree from the Faculdade de Medicina de Lisboa and her PhD in Medicine from NOVA Medical School. Her research interests are the biology and treatment of lymphoid neoplasias. Professor Gomes da Silva is President of the Portuguese Society of Haematology since 2024, past chair of the Portuguese Lymphoma Group and an active member of the Portuguese Association Against Leukemia. She is also a member of the American Society of Haematology, European Hematology Association, the Lymphoma Study Association, the European Mantle Cell Network, the European Lymphoma Institute and of the Lymphoma Scientific Working Group of the European Lymphoma Association. She has been a principal investigator of several Phase II/III clinical trials focused in the treatment of lymphomas, and has authored and co-authored more than 90 scientific publications in different journals including Lancet, New England Journal of Medicine, Blood, Journal of Clinical Oncology, Annals of Oncology, Haematologica and HemaSphere. She is a regular reviewer for a number of hematology journals.