Leonard A. Lobbes is a senior resident of general surgery at Charité University Hospital in Berlin. His research focuses on image- and fluorescence-guided surgery, with studies in progress investigating perfusion, ischemia, and tumor visualization. He received a doctorate degree from the University of Cologne in Oncology ("Identification of potential new cancer therapies through the combination of targeted inhibitors in a tumor cell culture model”) while graduating in medicine, after having completed secondary education in the UK and Germany.