Jörg D. Hoheisel is Head of the Division of Functional Genome Analysis and Chairman of the Scientific Council at the Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (DKFZ; German Cancer Research Center) in Heidelberg, Germany. Apart from publishing more than 300 scientific papers, the division filed 47 patents. Jörg Hoheisel is co-founder of four companies; another three companies were set-up by former group members. Prior to joining DKFZ, Jörg Hoheisel worked for five years at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund in London, UK, the initial two years funded by an EMBO fellowship. Before, he had obtained his PhD at the University of Constance, Germany