Professor Maximilian Ackermann is a pathologist at the Institute of Pathology and Molecular Pathology at Helios University Hospital Wuppertal and holds the Chair of Hematopathology at RWTH Aachen University Hospital and at the Institute of Anatomy, University Medical Center Mainz. His research He is a dual-qualified specialist in pathology and anatomy. His scientific interests are focused on translational research into the formation of new blood vessels and their therapeutic influence on cancer, wound and tissue repair, cardiovascular diseases and other pathologies. He has published extensively in international journals, with over 200 papers to his name, and serves on the advisory board of the Angiogenesis Foundation, Cambridge (USA) and the WHO on the subject of LongCoV. He has been recognised for his contributions to science with prestigious awards such as the Rudolf Virchow Prize and the Boehringer Ingelheim Prize. He was recently awarded  the Lennart Nilsson Award, one of the world’s most prestigious awards in the field of scientific photography, by the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm.