Jochen Neuhaus was born in Kamen, Germany, in 1958. He is married and has three children. He received his diploma in biology (1985) and his Ph.D. degree (1989) from the University of Tübingen, Germany. Following post-doctoral research on interactions of astrocytes with brain endothelial cells in the ultrastructure research laboratory of Prof. Dr. H. Wolburg in Tübingen, he received a two-year research fellowship from the German Research Society (DFG) for studies on astroglia and microglia in cell cultures in the research group of Prof. Dr. S. Fedoroff, Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine, Saskatoon, Canada. In 1993 he returned to Berlin, Germany, as assistant at the Max-Delbrück-Centrum for Molecular Medicine (Prof. Dr. H. Kettenmann) to supervise the electron microscopy lab. He left Berlin in 1995 to establish and head the research facilities of the Dept. of Urology, University of Leipzig, Germany. In 2009 he habilitated and received his private lectureship for ‘Experimental Urology’ from the University of Leipzig. His current research interests are interstitial cystitis / bladder pain syndrome, prostate cancer and bladder cancer, biomarker research. Jochen Neuhaus has been awarded numerous research grants and prizes. He is a member of the German Society of Urology (DGU), the Saxonian Urological Association (SGU), and a member of the scientific advisory board of the Interstitial Cystitis Association (ICA) Germany.