Prof. Dr. Thomas Skutella is the director of the Department of Neuroanatomy at the Institute for Anatomy and Cell Biology, Heidelberg, Germany. He was the director of the Center for Regenerative Medicine in Tübingen, Germany. Before that, he completed his MD at Frankfurt a.M., Germany, postdoctoral studies at the Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry, Munich, and the Institute of Anatomy, Charite, Berlin. His research interests include regenerative medicine, tissue engineering, and biomaterial engineering.