Jean Rommelaere is a Professor Emeritus at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ). He is a former Director of the Tumor Virology Division at DKFZ and of two European Research Units at the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM) in Heidelberg, Germany. His professional career comprised steps in Belgium (Ph.D. holder, qualified researcher, and lecturer at the Free University of Brussels (ULB)), USA (post-doctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, and Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven), France (INSERM Research Director at the Pasteur Institute, Lille), and Germany (professor at the University of Heidelberg).