Fermín Sánchez-Guijo Martín, head of the Cell Therapy Section of the Haematology Department of the University Hospital of Salamanca, full professor of the Department of Medicine of the University of Salamanca and secretary of the Spanish Chronic Myeloid Leukaemia Group of the SEHH, has been elected vice-president of the International Society for Cell and Gene Therapy (ISCT). The appointment as vice-president-elect will be effective from June 2021 until June 2023, when he will become vice-president of the ISCT until June 2025. This international scientific society brings together all those involved in the development and improvement of cell and gene therapies for clinical use. The outgoing vice-president in June 2021 is Joan García López, director of Research at the Banc de Sang i Teixits de Catalunya and associate of the SEHH.