Edda Tobiasch, female, molecular biologist, graduated from biology department, Technical University Kaiserslautern. Dr. Tobiasch worked as post-doc on signal transduction pathways at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) in Heidelberg, the Research Center Karlsruhe, and the University of Heidelberg. She was Instructor at Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA and is now professor of the Department of Natural Sciences, Bonn-Rhine-Sieg University of Applied Sciences. She was awarded for "Outstanding Scientific Research" at the DKFZ (1993), as "External Expert (2008) and Internal Expert (2009), Foreign Member of the Ph.D. School" and “visiting professor†(2011) at the University Palermo, Italy. She is a member of the Steering Committee of the Stem Cell Network North Rhine Westphalia.