Prof. Dr. Lutz Schomburg was trained in biochemistry at the University of Hannover, Germany. He completed internships at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry in Munich, the Waite Agricultural Research Institute, Adelaide, Australia, and King's College London, UK. He worked at the Max Planck Institute for Experimental Endocrinology in Hannover, and received his Ph.D. in 1994. He held postdoctoral positions at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA, with Prof. William W. Chin, and at Julius Maximilians University, Würzburg, with Prof. Josef Köhrle. He is currently Deputy Director of the Institute for Experimental Endocrinology at Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin.