Nicolaus Kröger, MD, from the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany, speaks about how the rising field of cellular therapy has been one of the essential parts of the 2017 EBMT meeting. He highlights debates about how to avoid relapse after stem cell transplantation in hematological malignancies, as well as the rising field of cell therapy. Recorded at the 2017 annual meeting of the European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation (EBMT) in Marseille, France.