Prof. Thomas Skutella has completed his MD at the University Clinics Frankfurt a.M., Germany, and postdoctoral studies at Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry, Munich, and the Institute of Anatomy, Charite, Berlin. He was group leader in the Neuroscience Research Center , Charite Berlin, director of the Center for Regenerative Medicine, Tübingen, Germany and has been from 2010 head of the department of Neuroanatomy in the Institute for Anatomy and Cell Biology, Heidelberg, Germany.