Tobias Pischon is full professor for molecular epidemiology at the Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin and head of the Molecular Epidemiology Research Group at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin, Germany. He is also head of the MDC biobank and among the scientific directors of the biobank of the Berlin Institute of Health (BIH). Prof. Pischon is medical doctor and epidemiologist (Dr. med., MPH), with the facultas docendi (Habilitation) and the venia legendi in epidemiology and social medicine. He holds the certificate in Clinical Nutrition from the Medical Associations Berlin and Brandenburg, Germany and in Epidemiology from the German Society for Epidemiology. Past appointments include positions as post-doc and research associate in the Depts. of Nutrition and Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, and as senior investigator and research group head at the Dept. of Epidemiology of the German Institute of Human Nutrition (DIfE). Prof. Pischon is among the principle investigators of the German National Cohort (NAKO), member of the board of directors, and head of the study center Berlin-North of the NAKO. Prof. Pischon was stipend of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and received several awards from scientific societies. His research focuses on the impact of metabolic factors, nutrition, diet and lifestyle on the risk of chronic diseases, particularly cancer, CVD, and diabetes.