Helen Elisabeth Heslop is a physician-scientist from New Zealand whose clinical interests are in hematopoietic stem cell transplants.
She was educated at Kaikorai Valley High School in Dunedin,[4] before attending the University of Otago, from where she graduated MB ChB in 1980.
She was a fellow in the Department of Haematology at Royal Free Hospital in London, England, where she conducted research into transplantation immunology, leading to the award of MD from Otago in 1990.
Heslop's first faculty appointment was as Assistant Member of the Division of Bone Marrow Transplantation in the Department of Hematology-Oncology at the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
The disease is a complication that occurred in about 15 percent of unrelated or mismatched family member bone marrow transplants at that time.