Acquisizione competenze tecnico-professionali:It is undoubtful that hematology has witnessed many exciting discoveries in the last 50 years, ranging from the description of recurrent chromosomal defects uniquely associated with disease, such as the philadelphia chromosome in chronic myelogenous leukemia, to the discovery of genes considered to be disease-driver and/or associated with unique clinical characteristics and prognosis, to the immunophenotypic characterization of very rare bone marrow and blood cell subsets with specific functions, perhaps no other field in clinical medicine witnessed so rapid translation of discoveries from the laboratory to patient’s side, in terms of new powerful diagnostic tools made available, new diagnostic categories being identified and prognostic scores developed, and, after all, new therapeutic options being made available for the patients.