Paolo De Coppi is the Professor of Paediatric Surgery and Head of Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine Section, Developmental Biology & Cancer Programme at the UCL Institute of Child Health. He is also NIHR Professor and Consultant Paediatric Surgeon at the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children and the UCL Institute of Child Health. Concomitantly he is an Professor at the University of Leuven, Belgium (since 2013), Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Wake Forest University, Wiston-Salem, NC, US (since 2009) and Honorary Assistant Professor Paediatric Surgery, University of Padua, Italy (since 2005).