Shreyans Gandhi, MBBS, MD, DNB(Internal Medicine), MRCP, FRCPath, M.Phil, King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK, discusses the need for novel diagnostic criteria for patients with veno-occlusive disease (VOD). Dr Gandhi first discusses the efficacy of current diagnostic criteria, and further emphasizes the importance of improving current criteria so that patients can be identified at the earliest stage possible and improve treatment outcome. This interview took place at the 62nd Annual Scientific Meeting of the British Society for Haematology (BSH) 2022, in Manchester, UK.