Professor Dr. Andreas Trumpp is heading the Division of “Stem Cells and Cancer” at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) in Heidelberg, Germany, is chair of the DKFZ Research Program Cell and Tumor Biology and Managing Director of the “Heidelberg Institute for Stem Cell Technology and Experimental Medicine” (HI-STEM gGmbH). After obtaining his PhD at the EMBL in Heidelberg, he moved to the University of California at San Francisco to work with Prof. J. Michael Bishop. After starting his independent laboratory at the Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research (ISREC) in 2000, he became Professor at the EPFL in Lausanne and relocated to Heidelberg in 2008. Andreas Trumpp's research program focuses on key questions of stem cell function and in particular on the relationship between stem cells and cancer, metastasis and therapy resistance. Recently, he entered the field of Cancer Neuroscience by developping novel methods to characterize peripheral neurons that innervate pancreatic cancer andother carcinomas of the trunk. Trumpp has published more than 250 papers in peer-reviewed journals that have been cited more than 36,000 times and he hasan H-index of 89. In 2019 and 2022, Trumpp was recognized as a highly cited researcher (top 1%) by Web of Science, he received the German Cancer Award in 2020 and an ERC Advanced Grant in 2022.