Anke Van den Berg obtained her PhD (cum laude) in 1996. She is a Professor of Molecular Pathogenesis of Malignant B-cell Lymphoma in the Department of Pathology and Medical Biology, University of Groningen, University Medical Centre Groningen, the Netherlands. Her main research interest is studying the molecular pathogenesis of B-cell Hodgkin and non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Her specific fields of interest are genomic aberrations, genetic susceptibility, the role of small and long noncoding RNAs, and the cross-talk between tumor cells and the microenvironment.