Professor Deepa J Arachchillage is a professor of Haemostasis and thrombosis and consultant haematologist at Imperial College London and Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK. In 2021, She was honoured as the researcher of the year by National Institute for Health and care Research/British Society for Haematology (BSH). She is a recipient of back-to-back Medical Research Council clinical academic research partnership award 2021 and 2024. She is the chair of the ISTH SSC Subcommittee on Antiphospholipid syndrome and led number of national guidelines and international guidelines. Her research areas of interests are antithrombotic treatment, laboratory assays, antiphospholipid syndrome, endothelial dysfunction, thrombo-inflammation and acquire bleeding disorders especially related extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. She has published over 125 peer-reviewed journal articles and several book chapters. Apart from her clinical academic work, she is member of the Future Leaders Climate Policy Project, a collaboration between Academy of Medical Sciences in the UK and the National Institutes of Health USA: For people, for planet’ policy report on improving the environmental sustainability of health research in the UK and the US.