Franz Weber graduated from the University Konstanz (Germany) with a PhD in Biology/Muscle Biochemistry. He completed a 3-year postdoctoral training on muscle cell biology at Cornell University Medical College in New York City and served as a lecturer in the Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy. He spent the following two years at Biochemistry of the ETH Zurich (École polytechnique fédérale) working on the lipid uptake from the small intestine. In 1995, he joined the Department of Cranio-Maxillofacial and Oral Surgery at the University Hospital Zurich and the Dental School of the University Zurich. Beside his obligations at the University of Zurich, he became Director of the European Technical Centre of Inion Ltd in Cambridge (UK) in 2005 and occupied this position until 2009. His main areas of interest are osteoconduction, scaffold design, bone growth, and pulp regeneration. His research encompasses additive manufacturing, bone substitutes, osteoconduction, bone morphogenetic proteins, delivery systems, epigenetics, and in vitro bone tissue engineering. Franz E. Weber has authored 129 peer-reviewed research articles published in international journals amounting to more than 5815 citations, 16 patents, several review articles, and an h-index of 34. He is member of TERMIS (Tissue Engineering international & Regenerative Medicine Society), IADR (International Association for Dental Research), DKG (German Ceramic Society), and ACerS (The American Ceramic Society).