Ingrid Wünning Tschol is Senior Vice President at the Robert Bosch Center for Innovative Health at the Bosch Health Campus, Stuttgart, Germany. She holds a PhD in Biology from the University of Tübingen, Germany. From 1985-1990, she conducted postdoctoral research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge and State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA. Further stations in her career were: Head of Molecular Biology, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) in Bonn, Germany; Head of Medical Section, European Science Foundation in Strasbourg, France. She is or was member of numerous national and international committees, amongst them as Vice Chair of the European Research Area Board (ERAB), advising the European Commissioner for Research from 2008 to 2011. More recent committee activities include membership in the ETH Zürich Foundation; Universitätsrat Ulm; BOT African Agricultural Technology Trust; Careum Stiftung Zürich and Scientific Advisory Board Zukunftskolleg University Konstanz.