Rob Wynn is a consultant paediatric haematologist at the Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital and Director of the Blood and Marrow Transplant Programme there. He is Honorary Professor of Paediatric Haematology and Cell Therapy at MAHSC.

Rob was born in Sudan and grew up in Liverpool. He was educated at St Edward’s College, Liverpool and did undergraduate medicine training in Cambridge University and The (now Royal) London Hospital, qualifying in 1989. He trained in medicine in London, Newcastle, and Edinburgh, and in Haematology in Cardiff, Manchester and Toronto.

The transplant programme in Manchester has specific expertise and interest in the stem cell and gene therapy of metabolic disorders, and in the use of cord blood in transplant, including for refractory leukaemia.

His career has been greatly influenced by Professor Alan Burnett in Cardiff and Professor Ed Wraith in Manchester. Rob has published over 250 peer reviewed papers in Haematology and BMT, and contributed to several textbooks and chapters in transplant and haematology.

Rob Has been a lifelong fan of Liverpool FC and is a season ticket holder in the Kop. In 2023 he rode all 21 stages of the Tour de France, to raise awareness of the need for trials in transplant in kids, and to mirror such networks in adults.