Thomas Lehrnbecher is a Professor of Pediatrics and has worked since 2001 as a Pediatric Hematologist and Oncologist in the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt, Germany. Since 2018, he has been the Head of the Department of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology. He trained from 1990 to 1995 and from 1999 to 2001 in the Children´s Hospital in Würzburg, Germany, and from 1996 to 1999 at the Pediatric Oncology Branch of the National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, USA. His clinical and laboratory research focuses on infectious complications in children with cancer, the development of immunotherapeutic strategies against invasive fungal infections, and the interaction of host immune cells and fungi.