Professor Charles Craddock is Professor of Haemato-oncology at the University of Warwick and Academic Director of the Centre for Clinical Haematology at University Hospitals Birmingham. Professor Craddock is Chair of the UK Stem Cell Strategic Oversight Committee and was Medical Director of Anthony Nolan from 2010–2014. He is a past President of the British Society of Haematology. Professor Craddock pioneered the development of both the UK Haemato-oncology Trials Acceleration Programme and the stem cell transplant trials network, IMPACT. In 2021, he founded Accelerating Clinical Trials Ltd, an innovative haemato-oncology trials delivery vehicle. He has published more than 275 papers in peer-reviewed journals. Professor Craddock was awarded the CBE for services to medicine in the 2016 New Year’s Honours List and was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2020.