Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Udo S. Gaipl obtained his PhD with distinction in 2003. Following a PostDoc in Milano at the tumor immunology unit of the Hospitale San Raffaele, he returned to Erlangen and continued his work on stressed and activated cells as a tool for immune intervention. Since 2007, he has headed the Radiation Immunobiology at the Department of Radiation Oncology in Erlangen and is head of the Experimental Radiation Oncology of the DEGRO and member of the management boards of the DeGBS and ESHO. Since 2015, he has been Professor for Experimental Medicine and has published more than 190 papers on immune modulations by radiation and dying cells. Since 2020, he has additionally headed the Translational Radiobiology in Erlangen.